Download The Five Themes of Geography

Learning Target-I can identify the important
parts of a map and explain what the Five
Themes of Geography are and how they
relate to my life.
Homework- Finish Worksheet on the Five
Themes of Geography and vocabulary
puzzle – Due on Tuesday, August 27
Warm-up – Briefly explain the difference
between a primary source and a secondary
source. Is a map a primary or a secondary
source? Explain your answer?
FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
OBJECTIVE OF THE FIVE THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY –
FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
OBJECTIVE OF THE FIVE THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY – We will examine the Five
Themes of Geography, explore how they aid
geographic observation and analysis, identify
some of the ways in which the geography of the
United States has affected its development.
FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
A) Location
B) Place
C) Region
D) Movement
E) Human-Environment Interaction
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
• Let’s look up Washington, D.C. on page R
2-3 in the back of our text.
• It is found at 39° North Latitude and 77º
West Longitude.
• This is written like this 39°N/77ºW.
• Now lets try – Louisville, Kentucky.
• It is found at 38°N/86ºW.
• What modern device uses absolute
location?
Relative Location
• Describes where a
place is in relation
to another place
• Uses descriptive
and directional
words to describe
– You can use cardinal
and intermediate
directions
Directions
Cardinal
• North
• South
• East
• West
Intermediate
• Northeast
• Southeast
• Northwest
• Southwest
• Relative location of Washington, D.C.
• It is located on the East Coast of the
United States, about halfway between
Maine and Florida and is found on the
Potomac River between Virginia and
Maryland.
• Okay, let’s try Louisville, Kentucky
• It is located in the Ohio River Valley,
about halfway from the Gulf of Mexico in
the South and Canada in the North and is
found on the Ohio River between
southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.
Theme 2: Place
a) Physical Characteristics
• Land Features
• Mountains, plains,
and plateaus
• Climate
• Bodies of Water
Theme 2: Place
b) Human Characteristics
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People
Culture
Language
Religion
Buildings and
Landmarks
• Cities
Theme 3: Human
Environment Interaction
How People Interact With Their
Environment
People . . .
• Adapt to Their Environment
• Modify Their Environment
• Depend on Their Environment
• Pollute or ruin Their Environment
Human Environment Interaction
The interaction could be building a bridge, planting or cutting down
a tree, building a dam, putting in a shopping mall, building a
home/business or cutting the grass.
Theme 4: Movement
The Mobility of
• People
• Goods
• Ideas
How Places are linked to
one another and the
world
The way this movement
occurs changes over
time.
Technology affects all
three types of
movement.
Washington, D.C.: Movement
Movement of people in Washington,
D.C. takes place many ways such as
subway, cars, trolley and taxi’s, while
the movement of goods can be by ship,
train, tractor-trailer, etc. and the
exchange of ideas by phones, text
messaging, IM, email, snail mail, etc.
Theme 5: Regions
What Places Have in Common
• Political Regions
• Landform Regions
• Agricultural Regions
• Cultural Regions
It includes shared
characteristics such
things as climate,
language, religion, and
political divisions.