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What are the five themes of Geography?
- 1. Location
- 2. place
- 3. human/environment interaction
- 4. movement
- 5. regions
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Element #1 is LOCATION
Where a place is located.
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Element 2 is PLACE
It is not just a geographic location. It is also describes characteristics. It might describe physical characteristics such as landforms, climate and plant or animal life.
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Element 3 Is PHYSICAL SYSTEMS.
Physical Systems are systems such as hurricanes, volcanoes and glaciers which shape the earth's surface.
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Element 4 is Human Systems.
Human systems are how people have shaped our wirld. Boundary lines, why people settle in certain places and not in others. Continual movement of people, ideas and goods.
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Element 5 is Environment and Society
How people use the environment and how their actions affect the environment.
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Element 6 is USES of Geography.
Knowledge of geography helps us understand the relationships among people, places and environments over time.
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What are Hemispheres?
Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern.
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What is Latitude?
Lines of latitude or parallels, circle the earth parallel to the Equator and measure the distance north or south of the Equator in degrees. Equator is a 0 degree latitude. North pole lies at latitude 90 deg North.
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What is Longitude?
Lines of longitude, or meridians, circle the earth from Pole to Pole. These lines measure distances east or west of the starting line which is a 0 deg longitude and is called the Prime Meridian.
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What does Absolute Location?
People can pinpoint the precise spot where on line of latitude crosses one line of longitude.
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