Friday, September 24, 2010

The Five Themes Of Geography

1. Location: Location is the place where a person or thing is at, there are two types

a. relative
b. absolute










2. Place: Describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

a. Physical-mountains, rivers, beaches, and animal and plant life of a place
b. Human- human-designed cultural features of a place, from land use and architecture to forms of livelihood and religion to food and folk ways to transportation and communication networks.



3. Huamn-Inviroment Interactions- How humands adapt to and modify the enviroment.



4. Movement: The moveing of not only pepole but ideas, foods, and religion.




5. Region: divides the world into manageable units for geographic study. Regions have some sort of characteristic that unifies the area. Regions can be formal, functional, or vernacular.

a. Formal- official boundaries, such as cities, states, counties, and countries.
b. Functional- defined by their connections, for example, the circulation area for a major city area is the functional region of that paper.
c. Vernacular-  perceived regions, such as "The South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East;" they have no formal boundaries but are understood in our mental maps of the world.



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

COLORADO





Nickname is the: Centennial State


Official languages are: English (previously Spanish) and (previously German)

Capitol: Denver, Colorado    also the largest city in Colorado


Largest metro area: Denver-Aurora-Broomfield MSA


Number of population: 5,024,748 (2009 estimate)


Admission to Union on August 1, 1876 as the 38th state