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The Five Themes
of Geography
What is Geography?
 Study of the earth and the way people
live and work on it.
 Means “earth’s description.”
 Will help you understand the history of
a civilization
 Uses 5 themes to explain what a place is
like and why it is like that.
The 5 Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Human/Environmental Interaction
Movement
Regions
Compass Rose
Theme 1: Location
Where is It? Why is it There?
Two Types of Location:
Absolute Location
A specific place on the Earth’s
surface
Uses a grid system
Latitude and longitude
A global address
Latitude
Horizontal lines
measured in
degrees north
or south of the
Equator
(0 Latitude)
“Lat” rhymes
with “Flat”
Longitude
distance measured
in degrees east or
west from an
imaginary line that
goes from the North
Pole to the South
Pole
Examples of Absolute Location:
 New Jersey
40° N Latitude
74° W longitude
 Thomas Jefferson Middle School
40.93° N Latitude
74.10° W Longitude
Relative Location
 The position of a place in relation to
another. (Fair Lawn is north of
Philadelphia)
 Northwest
 Northeast
 Southeast
 Southwest
 North
 South
 East
 West
Fair
Lawn
Practice: New Jersey
 New Jersey is boarded by New York to the
_______and Pennsylvania to the _________.
 The Atlantic Ocean forms New Jersey's
____________coast.
Theme 2: Place
Physical Characteristics
Land Features
Mountains, plains, and
plateaus
Climate
Bodies of Water
New Jersey:
Physical
Characteristics
Theme 2: Place
Human Characteristics
People
Culture
Language
Religion
Buildings and Landmarks
Cities
New Jersey: Human
Characteristics
Theme 3: Human Environment
Interaction
 How People Interact With Their
Environment
 People . . .
 Adapt to Their Environment
 Modify Their Environment
 Depend on Their Environment
Example: American Westward
Expansion of the 1800s.
Adapt to Their Environment
Modify Their Environment
Modify Their Environment
Modify Their Environment
Panama Canal
http://www.history.com/videos/panama
-canal-locks#panama-canal-locks
Depend on Their Environment
Theme 4: Movement
How places are linked to one
another and the world.
The Mobility
of:
People
Goods
Ideas
Examples:
Religion
Languages
Cultures
New Jersey: Movement
EXAMPLE:
Elizabeth/Newark
Theme 5: Regions
What places have in common:
Political Regions (United States,
New Jersey)
Landform Regions (rivers,
mountains)
Agricultural Regions (Farmland,
wheat, corn)
Cultural Regions (language, arts)