5 Themes of Geography

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5 Themes of Geography
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What do you think of when you hear the word
geography?

• The study the earth and the way that people live
  on it and use it.
• Includes water, landforms, weather, plant and
  animal life, and people, as well as the effects
  of human activity on the earth.

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What do geographers do?

• Geographers try to discover reasons why places
  are the way they are and the reasons why people
  interact with the land the way they do.
• To help them organize their work they use the 5
  Themes of Geography.

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Theme 1 Location

• Where is a place located? Where is it near? What
  direction is it from another place?
• Absolute Location or Relative Location?

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Theme 2 Description of Place

• What is a place like? What characteristics does
  it have?
• Physical and Human Characteristics
• The shape of the land, its climate, and animal
  life would be described along with how the people
  look and the kinds of building they live in.

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Theme 3 Human-Environment Interaction

• How are peoples lives shaped by the place where
  they live? How has a place been shaped by human
  activity?
• How do people earn a living?

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Theme 4 Movement

• Movement of people, goods, and ideas around the
  world.
• Communist Countries?
• Internet?
• Religious freedom?
• Nomadic?

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Theme 5 Regions

• Why are some places similar to others? Why are
  some places thought of as belonging together?
• Common physical or cultural features.
• Language or Land

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Maps and Globes

• You will use maps and globes to answer questions
  about locations of countries and cities, oceans
  and rivers, mountains and deserts.
• They show the shapes and sizes of places on earth.

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Maps and Globes

• Help you determine distances and directions
  between places.
• Globes are small copies of the earth.

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Continents and Oceans

• Large bodies of land are called continents.
• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Asia
• Africa
• Australia
• Antarctica

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Hemispheres

• Half of a Sphere.
• Geographers use this term to refer to half of the
  earth.
• Equator circles the earth halfway between the
  North Pole and South Pole.

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Directions

• Cardinal Directions
• N, S, E, W
• Intermediate Directions
• NW, NE, SW, SE

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Scale

• Will tell you how much smaller map distances are
  than real distances.
• Line Scales.

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Symbols

• Is anything that stands for something else.
• Dots, squares, circles, triangles, lines,
  letters, and numbers.
• To find out what they mean, you must look at the
  map key.
• Map key explains what each symbol stands for.

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Different Kinds of Maps

• Political
• Show countries, capitals, and other important
  political features.
• Physical
• Show the natural features of the earth. Ex.
  Continents, oceans, islands, lakes, rivers,
  mountains, plains, and deserts.

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Kinds of Maps

• Landform Maps
• Physical maps that show how the earths surface
  varies from place to place.
• Distribution Maps
• Shows how population, rainfall, language, and
  religion are distributed.