Five Themes of Geography

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Five Themes of Geography
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1. Location

• Where is it?
• Absolute location and relative location

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Absolute Location

• Where is its exact location on the globe?

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Relative Location

• Where is it in relation to some other place or
  thing?

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2 Place

• What makes it distinct from another place?

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A. Physical characteristics

• What landforms, climate and vegetation exist in
  this place that make it distinct from other
  places?

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B. Human Characteristics

• What languages, customs, beliefs, government,
  economy make one place unique from other places?

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3 Human Environment

• How do people use the environment?
• How have they changed it?

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Human Environment

• What are the consequences of those changes?
• How have people responded to changes in their
  environment?

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4 Movement

• What and/or how do people , goods and ideas move
  between places?

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5 Regions

• What is similar about a group of places?

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A. Formal

• What physical and/or human attributes do these
  places have in common?

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B. Functional

• How are these places connected by movement?