Geography/Economic/Natural Disaster Notes

Name __Mrs.Alls_

  • 5 Themes of Geography
  • 1. Location
  • Absolute – exact location
  • i.e. – address or longitude/latitude
  • Lines of latitude run east to west.
  • Lines of longitude run north to south.
  • Glasgow is located at 37°N and 85°W.
  • 0° latitude is Equator.
  • 0° longitude is Prime Meridian.
  • Relative – what it is near
  • Wendy’s is located beside Arby’s.
  • Philadelphia lies between the Delaware and SchuylkillRivers.
  • Louisville lies on the Ohio River.
  • Best for giving directions
  • 2. Place
  • Physical features – occur naturally such as mountains, hills, fertile soil, climate. (i.e. Rocky Mountains or Appalachian Mountains)
  • Cultural features – ideas, languages, religion, and customs
  • 3. Region – areas that have something in common
  • 4. Movement – Humans interacting on Earth
  • 5. Human and Environment Interaction – Humans adapt, modify, and depend on their environment.
  • Negative Impact: cutting down a rainforest to build a shopping center
  • Positive Impact: man made lake/building a dam to assist with irrigation
  • Examples of how humans adapt, modify, and depend on their environment.
  • Adapt-Clothing you wear, food you eat, things you do, houses
  • Modify – build a dam to assist with irrigation, manmade lake
  • Depend – food and water
  • A person who makes maps is called cartographer.
  • Hemisphere is half the earth.

  • Name the hemispheres for the following locations:
  • USA – northern and western
  • Australia – southern and eastern_
  • Africa - southern and eastern
  • South America – southern and western
  • Asia – northern and eastern
  • Height above sea level is elevation.
  • People who move from place to place are called immigrants.
  • What is the main reason people move from place to place today? jobs
  • Cultureis way of life.
  • People who share common beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living
  • Examples of Kentucky’s culture – horseracing, corvettes,etc.
  • Examples of BarrenCounty’s culture – Highland Games, MammothCave, #1 rural county in the USA
  • Types of Map projections:

Mercator InterruptedRobinson

-accurate shapes,-more accurate but-fairly accurate shapes & sizes

- most populardifficult to measure

  • What has the strongest affect on climate? oceans

Decide which theme the following pictures are an example and write the theme beside the picture.

regionHEI absolute location place –cultural place –cultural

absolute location place - physical

absolute location

region HEI

movement

Economics

  • Types of Resources:
  • Human – workforce
  • Capital – tools, machinery, etc.
  • Natural –wood, soil, etc.
  • Types of Economies:
  • Traditional – past down from one generation to the next, relies on customs
  • Command – Government makes all the decisions
  • Market - Individual business owners make the decisions based on consumer choices
  • Mixed - Individuals and the government share the decision-making process; Means of production are mostly privately owned but government guides and regulates the economy.

Natural Disasters

  • Be able to give examples of natural disasters and tell what impact they had on the USA socially, economically, and geographically.