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The 5 Themes of Geography ORGANIZING OUR STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY USING THE CITY OF DETROIT AS AN EXAMPLE The 5 Themes Are: LOCATION PLACE REGIONS MOVEMENT HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION LOCATION Where is it? Where are we? ABSOULTE LOCATION RELATIVE LOCATION - exactly where is it? - General location 42N, 83W Home address In South East Michigan North and west of Windsor, ON On the Detroit River, between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie PLACE What is the place like? Physical Characteristics Human Characteristics Resources Climate Clothing Landforms Religion Water bodies Hobbies Plants/Trees Music Buildings Food Crops / Soil Language Ethnicity Entertainment HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How People interact with their environment Environment = land, water, climate resources, vegetation, infrastructure. OUR SURROUNDINGS! HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How de we depend on our environment: Examples: Using Resources (Detroit salt mine) Growing Crops HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How de we depend on our environment: Examples: Using water HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How de we modify / change our environment: Examples: Cutting down trees and planting trees Building Malls freeways HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How de we adapt or adjust to our environment: Examples: Wearing warmer clothes Shoveling snow or Slanted roofs MOVEMENT How do people, goods, And ideas move? How did people first settle here? Early settlers German, English and French What brought them to this place How do people and goods currently move? REGIONS What makes on area Like another? Physical Characteristics The Great Lakes Detroit Metropolitan Area Government Economic Activity Upper Midwest Similar climate, plant and animal life Similarities and differences help geographers learn why places develop the way that they do.
