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Where might this place be located? Is location
given in exact terms of latitude and longitude
or relative (in relation to other places)?
Location (Exact /Relative Location)
What is special about this place? What makes
it different from other places? What physical
processes shape the features and patterns of
the place? What is the weather/climate like?
How might people, goods, and ideas travel into
and out of this place?
Place (Physical/Human Characteristics)
How is this place like others near or around it?
Region
How have people affected this environment?
How might this environment affect people?
Human/Environment Interaction
Is there movement of people or goods? How
are ideas spread from one to another?
Movement
When geographers work, they are
guided by two basic questions:
1)Where are things located?
2)Why are they there?
To find these answers, geographers
use five themes to organize
information.
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Location
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=5_Themes_of_Geography&video_id=132237
Movement
How has the place been affected by the
movement of people, goods, and ideas?
How Places are linked to one another and the world
Region
How is the place similar to and different
from other places?
(political, physical, cultural)
A region has a unifying
characteristic, like climate, land,
population, or history.
•A region is a group of places that have
physical features or human
characteristics, or both, in common.
•Geographers compare regions to
understand their differences and
similarities
What Places Have in Common
•Political Regions
•Landform Regions
•Agricultural Regions
•Cultural Regions
•Climate
Human
How have people changed the
environment by their interaction with it?
(use to, adapt, change)
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How might this environment affect
people?
(Climate, area)
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Adapt
Modify
Depend
Location
Where is the place?
(absolute or relative)
Absolute shows exactly where something is (latitude &
longitude)
Relative is a location of a place in relation to another place (south
or down-hill)
Where is It? Why is It There?
North Carolina
•North Carolina is bordered by Virginia on the north, South Carolina and Georgia on the
south, and Tennessee on the west.
•The Atlantic Ocean forms North Carolina's east coast.
•North Carolina is one of the Southeastern States
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Place
What is the place like?
(physical & human features)
Every place has features that make it unique from
other places.
•This includes a location’s physical and human
features.
–To describe physical features, you might say that the
climate is hot or cold or that the land is hilly.
–To describe human features, you might discuss how
many people live there, what types of work they do, or
what they do for fun.
*Places change over time.
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Acronym – is an abbreviation that is formed
using the initial letters from a phrase or name.
Movement
Region
Human
Environment (interaction)
Location
Place
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110 Brown Rd.
Kernersville, NC 27284