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The Five Themes of
Geography
1. Location
2. Place
3. Human-Environment
Interaction
4. Movement
5. Regions
Theme 1: Location
• Where is It?
• Why is It There?
Two Types of
Location
•Absolute
•Relative
Absolute Location
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A specific place on the Earth’s surface
Uses a grid system
Latitude and longitude
A global address
Absolute Location - Longitude
• Measured in degrees E or
W of the Prime Meridian
(0° - runs through
Greenwich, England)
• 0° and 180° do not use
direction
• The distance between
lines of Longitude is
larger towards the
Equator and they
converge at the poles
Absolute Location - Longitude
35 miles
69 miles
Absolute Location - Latitude
• Measured in degrees N
or S of the Equator (0° runs around the
“center” of the globe)
• North Pole = 90° N
South Pole = 90° S
• 0° does not use
direction
• The distance between
all lines of Latitude is
equal
– Each degree is approximately
69 miles
Absolute Location
Latitude and Longitude are
measured in:
Degrees ° - Minutes ’ - Seconds ”
Great Valley
High School
• Latitude
40°N 3’ 26.40”
• Longitude
75°W 34’ 3.14”
Relative Location
• Where a place is
in relation to
another place
• Often uses
directional words
to describe
– Cardinal and
intermediate
directions
Relative Location
• The United States is bordered to its
NORTH by Canada and to its SOUTH by
Mexico
• The Atlantic Ocean forms the US EAST
coast and the Pacific Ocean its WEST
coast.
• The United States is in the WESTERN
HEMISPHERE
• The US is in NORTH AMERICA
Theme 2: Place
• Place describes the human and physical
characteristics of a location.
Theme 2: Place
Physical Characteristics
• Physical characteristics include a
description such things as the mountains,
rivers, beaches, topography, and animal
and plant life of a place.
Theme 2: Place
Human Characteristics
• Human characteristics include the
human-designed cultural features of a
place, from land use and architecture, to
forms of livelihood and religion, to food
and folk ways, to transportation and
communication networks.
Theme 3: Human
Environment Interaction
How People Interact With Their
Environment
People . . .
• Adapt to Their Environment
• Modify Their Environment
• Depend on Their Environment
Pennsylvania: Human
Environment Interaction
• Adapt To Their Environment
• Kinzua Dam – Allegany Forest
Pennsylvania: Human
Environment Interaction
• Modify Their Environment
• Schuylkill Canal - Phoenixville
Pennsylvania: Human
Environment Interaction
• Depend on Their Environment
• Amish Farmer in Lancaster
Theme 3: Human
Environment Interaction
This can also result in NEGATIVE results
Theme 4: Movement
The Mobility of
• People
• Goods
• Ideas
How Places are
linked to one
another and the
world
Pennsylvania: Movement
Theme 5: Regions
What Places Have in Common
• Political Regions
• Landform Regions
• Agricultural Regions
• Cultural Regions
Theme 5: Regions
• Political Regions
Theme 5: Regions
• Landform
• Regions
Theme 5: Regions
• Agricultural Regions
Theme 5: Regions
• Cultural Regions
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