5 Themes of Geography

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5 Themes of Geography
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The 5 themes are

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement
• Regions

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Location

• Answers the question, Where is it?
• Absolute location street address, latitude
  longitude, etc.
• Relative location telling where one place is by
  referring to another

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Place

• Identifying the natural and human features that
  makes a place different
• Ex. landforms, climate, cultures, etc.

Parthenon in Athens, Greece
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Human-Environment Interaction

• the way in which people either adapt to the place
  they live or make changes to it
• Ex mode of transportation used in Venice, Italy

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Movement

• Answers How do people, goods, and ideas move
  from place to place?
• Used to trace the spread of goods, people, and
  ideas

• Scene from Chinatown in San Francisco

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Regions

• a group of places that share common features
• Ex. - political, cultural, or related to climate

regions map of U. S.
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Do the following

• Find the absolute location of the highest
  mountain on our continent.
• Find the absolute location of capital cities in 3
  foreign countries. Include examples from 3
  different hemispheres (northern, southern,
  eastern, western).
• Give the relative location of Riverside Middle
  School.