the five themes
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The Five Themes. 1. Location 2. Place 3. Human-environment Interaction 4. Movement 5. Region. Location. Where is geography. A statement, not a question Society expects geographers to know about locations, places, and regions. When is history. Lots of what disciplines. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Five Themes1. Location2. Place3. Human-environment
Interaction4. Movement5. Region
Where is geography. A statement, not a questionSociety expects geographers to know
about locations, places, and regions.When is history. Lots of what
disciplines.Geographers use a special kind of
graphic [maps or charts] to help illustrate and communicate information about locations
Cartography = the science and art of map making
Map reading [and folding] are skills that can be learned
Maps are a generalization of reality [simplification]
Scale = a numerical way to relate the map to the world
Representative fraction:distance on the mapdistance in the world
1:5,000,000 1 inch on the map = 5 million inches in the world or1 inch = 78.9 miles
Absolute and relative locationAbsolute
An exact or fixed location on the EarthTypically use a grid system to describe
absolute locationLatitude and longitudeMany other coordinate systems exist
Township and RangeState Plane UTM
Street addresses
Absolute and relative locationRelative
Location connected with other landscape features
Many ways to ‘make the connection’Distance and direction [5 miles east of
______]At a reference point [at the Falls of the
Potomac]Time [25 minutes west of Hays on I-70]Kansas is north of OklahomaAcross the street from Pizza Hut
A fully functional Global Navigation Satellite SystemGPS uses a constellation of between 24 and 32
satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, that enable GPS receivers to determine their current location the time their velocity (including direction)
After Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace, President Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use as a common good.
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XWhere are all the locations that are a known distance from a point?
Two hands clapping [you need both]Site and situationCondition and connectionsRelationships within places [Place]
and relationships between places [Movement]