What are the five themes?

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The Five Themes of Geography
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What are the five themes?

• Tools geographers use to study features on
  earth.
• Location
• Place
• Movement
• Region
• Human Environment Interaction

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Location
• Asks the big question
• Where is it?
• Why is it located there?
• This deals with maps
• Tell me how to get your house..

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Location 2 types
• Absolute Locationto locate a place using a
  coordinate system (given in degrees of longitude
  and latitude)
• Ex 300 N and 700 W, or 313 1st Street
• Relative Locationto locate a place in
  relationship to other landmarks or places
• Ex Down the street from my grandmas house on
  the corner with the big elm tree

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The Five Themes of Geography

• 2. Place
• Asks the big question
• What is it like?
• How is it different from other places?

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The Five Themes of Geography

• 2. Place
• Physical Characteristicslandforms (mountains,
  plains), bodies of water (oceans, lakes, rivers)
  ecosystems (soil, plants, animals, climate)
  features that make places different from one
  another
• Human Characteristicsbridges, roads, buildings,
  culture, language

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Examples
• Canada, U.S., and Mexico are all in North
  America, but politics makes them different places
  and countries
• Economics also make places differentNorth vs.
  South Korea
• Religion makes a place differentJerusalem in the
  Middle East
• Can you think of one of your own?

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Human-Environment Interaction
• Asks the big question
• How do people interact with and change their
  environment?

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Human-Environment Interaction
• People depend on the environment
• People adapt to the environment
• People modify the environment

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The Five Themes of Geography

• 4. Movement
• Asks the big question
• How are people and places linked by communication
  and the flow of people, ideas and goods?

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The Five Themes of Geography

• 4. Movement
• Transportation, communication, trade
• Patterns of movement such as migration
• Ways that ideas are transferred from one location
  to another
• Trade and Migration change our world

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Region
• Asks the big question
• What are their unifying features and how do they
  form and change over time?

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Region
• Areas that share common features
• Region is a basic unit for geographic study
• Geographers divide the world into regions to help
  them interpret and understand the world
• Regions can be defined on the basis of physical
  and human characteristics