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Five Themes of Geography
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Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions
Map Observation
Activity
Map Questions
• In what state is this piece of map
showing?
• Can you describe more specifically where
in the state it is found? (What city,
particular area, name of something
specific you see)
• Provide two reasons for your answers
above.
Location
Location – where is it?
• Relative Location - are described by
landmarks, time, direction or distance from
one place to another.
• Absolute Location - is a latitude and
longitude (a global location) or a street
address (local location).
200 East 800 South
Heber, UT, 84032
Place
Place – what does it look like?
• Human Characteristics - the ideas and
actions of people that result in changes to
the environment, such as buildings, roads,
clothing, and food habits.
• Physical Characteristics - characteristics
include mountains, rivers, soil, beaches,
wildlife, etc.
Human Characteristics
Buildings
Clothing
Food Habits
Physical Characteristics
Mountains
Beaches
Wildlife
Movement
Movement – how it’s
connected
What moves – people, goods, and
ideas.
Regions
Regions – What are the shared
characteristics?
• Undefined regions – Loosely defined by
people’s perception.
– i.e.) Bible belt, Dixie, Chinatown, Middle East
• Defined Regions – Governmental
boundaries, or regions not open for
dispute.
– i.e.) Countries, Religion, Climate, Economics
Human-Environment
Interaction
Human-Environment Interaction
How do humans and the environment affect
each other?
 Humans adapt to their environment
 ie) suitable clothing, natural disasters
 Humans modify the environment
 ie) clearing forests, watering lawns, fertilization
 Humans depend on the environment
 ie) jobs, rivers for transportation, food
Questions???
• How have people changed?
– Adaptation
• How have people changed the
environment?
– Modified
• Do people depend on the environment for
anything?
– Depend on
Nature Walk
Affects on Environment
Modified
Adapted
Depend On
5 Themes Drawing
• Draw a picture to represent each part of
the different themes.
• Explain why the picture represents that
part of the theme.
Self Starter
• Ideas
• Location
• Defined
• Place
• People
• Movement
• Adapt
• Human-Environment
• Physical Chara.
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• Region
Trains
Wearing a Coat
Utah/Nevada Border
Trees, Lakes, Mnts.
Media
Self Starter
(Matching)
• Location
• Place
• Movement
• Human Environment
• Region
• What are the shared
characteristics?
• How is it connected?
• What does it look like?
• Where is it?
• How do people and the
environment affect each
other?
Self Starter
• Name the region where each physical
characteristic can be found.
– Flood plains
– Desert – Nothingness
– Temperate forest
– Great Plains
– Coastal Marshes
– Rolling Hills
Self Starter
• Copy notes to review for the test tomorrow.
• 5 Themes – know question each theme
answers. Be able to give examples of each
theme and its part. know definitions of theme.
• Regions – Know the main physical
characteristics of each region and identify
pictures.
• Map – Locate states, cities, and major
physical characteristics on the U.S. map.