Download Five Themes of Geography

Location
• Includes ABSOLUTE and
RELATIVE location
• Absolute location is a places
point on a globe or map
• Relative location is the places
location compared to another
place
Examples Of
Relative Location
• Atwater is 30 miles from
Modesto
• The United States is East of
Japan
• Mississippi is in the Southern
United States
How does absolute
location work?
• Imaginary lines of latitude run
parallel to the equator on a
globe or map
• Imaginary lines of longitude run
north and south between the
two poles
More on longitude
and latitude
• The equator is at 0º, while
the poles are 90° north (N)
and south (S)
• Lines of longitude are widest
at the equator and come
together at the poles
Place
• A place is described by its physical
and/or human characteristics
• physical - features including
landforms, climate, and vegetation
• human - people who live there,
political system, customs, economy,
etc.
Human-Environmental
Interaction
• How do people use their
environment?
• How have they changed it?
• How have people responded
to these changes
Movement
• As people, goods, and ideas move
from place to place, they can
change a places characteristics
• ex. - if communists invaded an
overtook The United States, our
countries geography would change
Regions
• Set of places that have similar
attributes
• ex - Chinatown is a region of
San Francisco
• ex - California is in the Western
United States