Thinking like a geographer with prompt 2011

6th World Cultures

Thinking Like a Geographer

• Way to make sense of the world• Understand society’s beginnings• How people and the environment affect

each other

Physical: Human:• Vegetation• Climate• Animals• Landforms• Water Features

What is Geography?

Two Branches:

P.R.A.I.S.E.• Political• Religion• Arts• Intellectual• Social• Economy

Demographics

• Ancient Greek Historian – Herodotus• Lived around 400 B.C.• Curious about the “known world”• Asked questions –

• Created one of the first maps of the world.

Who Was the First Geographer?

What do Geographers do?

How do they study the world?

What tools do geographers use?

What is it?Where is it?Why is it there?How did it get there?How does it affect people & the natural environment?What are the people like?What do they do?How do they live?How do they organize themselves?How do they interact with the world around them?

Can you think of any others?

Geographers Ask Questions

How Will We Study the World?• The World in Spatial Terms

– Absolute and Relative• Places & Regions

– How you describe a place– How you organize a place

• Physical Systems – Physical Geography

• Human Systems – Human Geography

• Environment & Society– Human Interaction

• Uses of Geography How do physical and human

features influence historical, current or future events?

The World in Spatial TermsSpatial – what does this mean?

Where things are located and why?

Where might this place be located?

Location: Geographers use two methods to describe location

Absolute RelativeExact Location

•Street address•Latitude, longitude

In relation to, approximate

• 5 miles south of..• Across the street from…•Over by…•15 minutes from…

Places & Regions

• Places…– What does this place look like?– What physical characteristics

does this place have?– What human characteristics does

this place have?– What is special about this place?

• Regions…– How do people organize places

that are similar?– What makes it different from

other places?– How is the place like others near

or around it?

Physical Systems

• What physical processes shape the features and patterns of a place?• Erosion• Natural Disasters

• Drought • Floods• Hurricanes• Earthquake

• What is the weather/climate like?• Snapshot• Long term patterns

• How do physical features affect where and how people live?• People adapt

• How do human activities affect…– Where people live?– How people live?

• Migration – - What factors might contribute to human migration?

– Push/Pull• Jobs• War• Religion• Availability of resources• Natural Disasters

– How do people, goods, and ideas move into and out of a place?

• Transportation• Communication• Trade

– How does this affect the way they live?• Adapt

• Interdependence – – How connected is this place to the rest of

the world?• Why is there conflict or

cooperation in this place?

Human Systems

Environment & Society

How do people interact with their environment?

• How do people modify the environment?

• How do people adapt to the environment?

• How does the environment impact people?

We use geography to…

• study the past…• interpret the present…• predict the future…

Who uses geography?Cartographers

Pilots

Surveyors

Engineers

Military

Agriculture

Uses of Geography

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