Quick Write

Consider the quote: If you dont know where you are going, any road will take you there. Answer these questions in complete sentences: 1.What is the meaning of this quote? 2.How does it relate to Geography? History?

What is Geography?
Geo Greek word meaning Earth or Land Graphien means to write

The study of different spaces How and why things differ from place to place on the surface of the earth The study of how observable spatial patterns evolved through time

5 Themes of Geography
Location

Region

Place

Themes of Geography

Movement

HumanEnvironmental Interaction

Location
Where is it? Where is ________ relative to where I am?
1) Absolute - EXACT location 2) Relative - less precise location Sample terms: Latitude and longitude, site

and situation, direction, distance, scale

Skills: Map reading, identification

Place
What is it like there? Why? How is it different from __________?
characteristics of the location Sample terms: Physical and cultural landscapes,

sense of place
Skills: Description, compare and contrast

Human-Environmental Interaction
How do people interact with the environment?
Relationships within places: what resulted from

human-environment relationships
Sample terms: Ecosystems, natural resources,

environmental pollution
Skills: Evaluation, analysis

Movement
How are people and places connected? How has this spatial pattern developed? Will it continue to change? What does it mean for the places involved?
Sample terms: Migration, diffusion, globalization Skills: Explanation, prediction

Region
What makes it like other areas? How they form and change?
Government, climate, culture, landform

Sample terms: Formal vs. functional regions

Skills: Synthesis, application

Location: Batavia, Indonesia

Region: Use of parasol indicates hot climate. Trees show that area is not overly dry. Dutch.

Place: Coastline, harbor, ocean, hills

Human-Environment: Dutch tried to make SE Asia into the Netherlands. Heavy clothing attire.

Movement: ships

Symbols of the Dutch Empire The Dutch painting Jacob Mathieusen and Wife (c. 1650) shows a senior official in the Dutch East India Company (a trading company) overlooking the Dutch fleet in Batavia, Indonesia. A slave holds a parasol, an Asian symbol of power.

(location, region, place, movement, humanenvironment interaction)

YOU TRY IT! Identify the 5 Themes of Geography

Prime Meridian

NORTH

Latitudes

W E S T

SOUTH

E A S T

Equator

Longitude

So, how do you know where you are going, if you dont know where you have been?

THATS WHY WE NEED THE STUDY OF HISTORY!!!