Five Themes of Geography

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Five Themes of Geography
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Location

• Tells where a place is located
• Absolute Latitude and Longitude
• Ex. The latitude of Seaford is
• Relative Close to, Beside, Etc.
• Ex. Delaware is beside the Atlantic Ocean

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Place

• Describes
• Physical and human features
• What is there?
• Who are the people?
• What vegetation grows?
• What animals live there?
• What natural resources are found?

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Human-Environment Interaction

• How do humans interact with the environment?
  (good and bad)
• How does the environment affect you? (good and
  bad)

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Movement

• How do people and ideas move?
• What is the effect of people and ideas moving?

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Regions

• Comparisons
• How does your region compare.
• Ex. We live in a plains region, the Atlantic
  Coastal region, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed,
  corn growing region, 4 seasons, etc.