The Five Themes of Geography
This theme describes how people, goods, and ideas get around from place to place
What is movement?
These are some methods of movement in Corcoran
What are buses, walking, speaking, trains, cars, etc?
This is a source that experienced the events being studied
What is a primary source?
These are the three major regions of geography
What are formal, functional, and perceptual regions?
These are the regions of Corcoran
Why is Corcoran part of Kings County? Why is it part of the San Joaquin Valley?
This is a source that tells you about the historical source being studied
What is a secondary source?
This theme is known as the adaptations, modifications, and dependencies people have with their environment
What is human-environment interaction?
These are various ways humans adapt, modify, and depend on Corcoran
How do people of Corcoran change their clothes, turn on ACs/heaters, and grow crops?
This is a strong one-sided opinion usually made with emotions rather than fact
What is bias?
These are the two types of location
What is absolute and relative location?
This is Corcoran's absolute and relative location
What is "Corcoran is across from McDonald's, North of Bakersfield, and 30 minutes South of Hanford, etc."?
These types of sources include interviews, artifacts, and documents
What are primary sources?
These are the characteristics studied of any place
What are physical and human characteristics?
What are Corcoran's physical and human characteristics?
What is Corcoran's Tulare Lake, cats, dogs, trees, etc? What are Corcoran's cultures, buildings, and languages?
These types of sources include documentaries, notebooks, and historians
What are secondary sources?