Five Themes of Geography

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Five Themes of Geography

• M.R. HE.L.P.

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Movement

• How did people, products, and ideas get from one
  place to another?
• Why do they make these movements?

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MOVEMENT

• Movement of people, goods, and ideas
• In order to get what need/want TRAVEL
• Meet other people, exchange goods, ideas,
  technology
• EX. Northern land bridge used to follow food into
  N. America, eventually travel to find place for
  political and religious freedoms
• EX immigrants, movement of goods link US
  w/globe imports/exports

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Regions

• How is this place like other places?
• What features set this place apart from other
  places?

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REGION

• Area of the world that has similar, unifying
  characteristics. Characteristics may be
• Physical -- landforms, climate, or plant/animal
  life (EX Great Plains level land, hot summers,
  cold winters, little rainfall, buffalo)
• Human/Cultural language, way of life (EX
  Chinatown in San Francisco, CA because
  Chinese-Americans have preserved their culture
  and language in that area of the city from their
  homeland)

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Human-Environment Interactions

• How are peoples lives shaped by the place?
• How has the place been shaped by people?

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HUMAN/ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONHow do humans and
the environment affect each other?

• We change the environment and then sometime
  Mother Nature changes it back. 
• For example, natural disasters like floods,
  hurricanes and earthquakes and mudslides in
  California, etc.
• There are three key concepts to
  human/environmental interaction. How humans
• M odify the environment. (A/C) A dapt to the
  environment. (jacket)
•   D epend on the environment . (food)
• KEY WORD RELATIONSHIP!

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HUMAN/ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION (continued)

• POSITIVES NEGATIVES
• One person's advantage may be another person's
  disadvantage. 
• Some like the excitement of large cities,
  whereas others prefer remoteness.  
• Environment is not just trees, spotted owls, and
  rain forests.  Environment is a feeling. 
• What is the environment of a big city such as
  Houston or New York? A small farm town in Iowa
  or Nebraska? The sequoia forests in California?
  The swamps in the Florida Everglades?

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Location

• Where is the place located?
• What is it near?
• What direction is it from another place?
• Why are certain features or places located where
  they are?

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LOCATION where a place is

• EXACT LOCATION
• The exact location of a place on a map found
  using latitude and longitude
• EX Houston
• Latitude 29 N
• Longitude 97 W

• RELATIVE LOCATION
• Describes where in relation to some other place
• EX Houston 4th largest city in the US located
  along the Gulf Coast of Texas

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YOUR PRACTICE
Cities Exact Relative
Houston, TX
Philadelphia, PA
Milwaukee, WI
Los Angeles, CA
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Place

• What is it like there?
• What physical and human features does it have?

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PLACE/PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

• How physical systems shape the earths surface
• EX hurricanes, volcanoes, glaciers

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PLACE/PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

• How humans shape the earths surface
• EX cities, farmland, search for raw materials