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List the 5 Themes of Geography
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Location
Place Human & The Environment Movement Regions |
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Explain Location
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Position on Earth's Surface
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Relative Location
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Refers to the location of a place in relation to another place (next to, close to, and between this place ant that place.)
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Absolute Location
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(exact location) is usually expressed in degrees of logitude and latitude.
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Place (5 Themes of Geography)
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Physical and Human Characteristics. Place is expressed in the characteristics that distinguish a location. It can be described in physical characteristics(water, landforms, climate, languages, etc.)
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Human and The Environment
(5 Themes of Geography) |
Includes studies of how people depend on the environment, how people adapt to & change the environment, and the impact of technoogy on the environment. Cities, roads, planted fields, etc.
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Movement
(5 Themes of Geography) |
Movement describes and analyzes the changing patterns caused by human interactions on the Earth's surface. Migration connects people worldwide through advanced forms of communications.
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Regions
(5 Themes of Geography) |
How they form and change.
Regions are a way to describe and compare places. A region is defined by its common characteristics and or features. |
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Location
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latitude and longitude
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Latitude
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Another word is parallel. Lines that run east to west. Based either north or sough of the Equator equal zero degrees.
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Longitude
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another word is meridian.
Lines that run north and south. based either east or west of the Prime Meridian = zero degrees all connect the North pole to the South Pole. The Prime Meridian divides the globe vertically - Eastern & Western Hemispheres. |
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Prime Meridian
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zero degrees longitude
passes through Greenwich, England This location was agreed by geographers who met in Washington DC in 1884. |
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Reference Point
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Geographers agreed on the Equator and the Prime Meridian as reference points. Prime Merician continues on the other side of the two poles, it becomes th 180 degree meridian or longitude. This meridian is 180 degrees east & west of the prime meridian
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Map Scale
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scale is the proportion between distance on the map and actual distance on the earth's surface
EX. one inch = one mile |
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Climate Zones
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Imaginary circles that roughly mark climate zones called frigid (very cold) and tropical (very hot) zones.
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