7th Grade Chapter 1 Section 1 notes

These are the notes. You need to have them in your notebook when you come back to class on Thursday (8/5)

Mr. Clark

5 Themes of Geography
Chapter 1
Section 1Geography
• The study of the Earth
• Where and why are things located where they are
5 Themes
•Location
• Regions
• Place
• Movement
• Human-Environment Interaction
Location•
Where is it?
• Cardinal directions (N,S,E,W,)
• Intermediate directions (N.E.)
• Latitude- “Flatitude”
• Longitude- “Long-a-tude”
• Latitude lines- Parallels
• Equator- 0 Latitude
• Longitude lines- Meridians
• Prime Meridian- 0 Longitude
Place•
Human and Physical Features of a specific location.
• EX. People live in apartments/condos
Regions•
Used to group places that have something in common
• Population
• History
• Climate
• Landforms
Movement•
Explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
Ex. Cultural groups
Human-Environment Interaction•
How people affect their environments
• Ex. Clearing a forest for farmland