Geography+Skills-+The+5+Themes+of+Geography

=__**Remember to check the PowerPoints page to review the presentations from class (minus the movies)!! **__=

=__**There are five basic themes in geography- **__=

 1.Location -where a place is
 *  A. Exact location - a position defined by latitude and longitude **

 of longitude and latitude help pinpoint the absolute location of a person, place, or thing. Knowing a location is 0 degrees west (longitude) and 51 degrees north (latitude) tells you it’s probably near Greenwich, England, for instance. Knowing the location is 0 degrees west and 51 degrees, 28 minutes, and 40 seconds north tells you the location is the Royal Observatory, a building in Greenwich. At the Royal Observatory, directions like left, right, upstairs, and downstairs give visitors even more precise locations.  Even absolute location is a form of relative location! Coordinates simply give a place's position relative to the (latitude) and (longitude). []

** B. Relative location - a location of a place in relation to another place **
A is the place where a particular point or object exists. Location is an important term in, and is usually considered more precise than "place." A is a human settlement: city, town, village, or even archaeological site.  A place's is its exact place on Earth, often given in terms of and.  For example, the Empire State Building is located at 40.7 degrees north (longitude), 74 degrees west (latitude). It sits at the intersection of 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York. That is the building’s absolute location.

Location can sometimes be expressed in relative terms. is a description of how a place is related to other places. For example, the Empire State Building is 365 kilometers (227 miles) north of the White House in Washington, D.C. It is also about 15 blocks from New York's Central Park. These are just two of the building's relative locations.  []

 2. Place - the human and physical characteristics of a location
A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. If you refer to your school as a place, then that place would include walls, windows, gym, cafeteria, classrooms, people, clothing, books, maps, mops, brooms, hallways, mice (if you have them) and everything else in the school, including the languages spoken. []

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