Los cinco temas de la geografía

ubicación - location

Te dice dónde está (absoluto y relativo)

Lugar

¿Cómo es cuando llegas allí? Cada uno tiene sus propias características físicas y humanas.

Regiones

¿Qué tienen en común los lugares?

Movimiento

¡La gente y las ideas se difunden y circulan!

interacción hombre-medio ambientehuman-environment interaction

¿Qué le hacen las personas al medio ambiente? ¿Qué hace el medio ambiente por las personas?

Human Characteristics

Anything manmade: art, language, religion, government, landmarks, bridges, roads etc. What's it like when you get there?

Physical characteristics

Natural features: landforms, water forms, climate, native plants, and native animals. What's it like when you get there?

interact

adapt to, modify, depend on

modify

Build trails and roads; cut down trees

adapt to

wear warm clothes

depend on

use trees for paper, heat, homes

absolute location

The EXACT location of a point on the earth's surface using latitude and longitude.

relative location

Describes location of a point by telling what it is near or what is close by.

equator

An imaginary line around the middle of the earth halfway between the North Pole and South Pole with a latitude of 0.

hemisphere

Half of the earth -- either Northern / Southern, or Eastern / Western

prime meridian

An imaginary line with a longitude of 0 that divides the earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres.

longitude

Imaginary lines that measure degrees east or west of the prime meridian

latitude

Imaginary lines that measure degrees north or south of the equator