The Five Themes of Geography

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The Five Themes of Geography

• By Miss K. Rice
• Revised by Mr. K. Buege

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The 5 Themes of Geography

1. Location
2. Movement
3. Region
4. Place
5. Human/ Environment Interaction (HEI)
6. 5 Themes of Geography video

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Theme 1 Location

• Where is it exactly??

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Location

• There are two types of LOCATION!!
• Absolute (its exact location on the Earth)
• Relative (its location in relation to other
  places)

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Absolute Location

• Absolute Location is found by using
• Two specific line types
• Latitude
• Longitude

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Absolute Location

• Latitude Lines
• AKA (Parallels)
• Hint-Lat rhymes with flat.
• Latitude lines are drawn from
• East to West
• Latitude lines measure
• North to South

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Absolute Location

• The Major Line of LATITUDE is the
• Equator
• It splits the Earth into
• the Northern and
• Southern Hemispheres

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Define Hemisphere

• Half of a globe
• (in our case the Earth)

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Absolute Location

• Other important lines of LATITUDE
• 22 1/3 North Tropic of Cancer
• 22 1/3 South Tropic of Capricorn
• They are important because
• They get the most direct
• sunlight making these areas
• the hottest places on Earth. Why?

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Absolute Location

• Other important lines
• 66 1/2 North Arctic Circle
• 66 1/2 South Antarctic Circle
• They are important because
• These areas get the least amount
• of sunlight. Part of the year
• there is no sunlight and the
• other part of the year there
• is no darkness. Why?

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Absolute Location

• Longitude Lines
• AKA (Meridians)
• Hint- Go Long!!!
• Longitude lines are drawn from
• North to South
• Longitude lines measure
• East to West

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Absolute Location

• The Major Line of LONGITUDE is the
• Prime Meridian
• It splits the Earth into
• the Eastern and
• Western Hemispheres

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Absolute Location
30N 15W 45S 45E 30S 60W 15N 30E 30
N 60W 45N 45E 60S 60W 60N 30W
30S 15E 60S 75E
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Relative Location

• Location in relation to other places
• Figure out where Texas is in relation to other
  states/countries
• Question related to theme of location
• Where is this place
• located and how has
• its location affected it?

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Absolute vs Relative location

• Absolute location- Austins absolute location is
  30º 16' N, 97º 44' W.
• Relative location- Austin is about 80 miles
  north east of San Antonio.

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Theme 2 Movement

• How are people linked together?

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Movement

• Movement describes how
• How people in one area contact people in other
  areas

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Movement

• The world is constantly changing, and places are
  affected by the movement of
• People
• Goods
• Ideas
• Physical forces
• Technology
• How is this place
• changing and why?

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Theme 3 Region

• What does it have in common?

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Region

• A region describes
• Areas that have something in common
• Or
• An area that has one or more features that make
  it different from surrounding areas.

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• Examples of physical regions include climates
  vegetation zones biomes general physical areas,
  such as mountains and specific physical areas,
  such as the Rocky Mountains.
• Examples of cultural regions include Scandinavia,
  Latin America, and the Bible Belt.
• Examples of global regions include areas with
  similar soil types, religions, climates,
  languages.
• Examples of local regions include school
  districts, newspaper-circulation areas, and zip
  code and zoning areas.

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Region

• Regions are fundamental organizing units of
  geography.
• Geographers use regions to give order to the
  earths surface.
• We organize space into regions every day. Every
  time we refer to an area by saying
• Im going downtown or down South, or Id
  like to live in that neighborhood, we are using
  the concept of regions.

How would you know you had left one region and
entered another? What characteristics make one
region different from another? How do you
determine the boundaries of a region?
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Theme 4 Place

• What is it like?
• Every place is unique and has its own
  personality and character.
• Examples
• weather
• plants and animals
• history
• people

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Place
What are the unique features of this place?
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Place
What are the unique features of this place?
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Place

• What are the unique
• features of this place?

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Place

• Each PLACE on Earth has it own
• DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS
• Two types
• Human
• Or
• Physical
• (something that makes it different than any other
  place in the world)

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• What is the difference between Location Place?

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What is the difference between Location Place?
Location 5 S , 68 W
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What is the difference between Location Place?
Place Describe
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Human/Environment Interaction

• How do we interact with our environment?

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HEI

• What is an environment?
• Natural Surroundings
• Human/Environment Interaction explains
• How people use and change their environment

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HEI

• The environment influences how
• We live
• Example What is
• the environment
• like and how does it
• affect the people who
• live there

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HEI Global Warming

• Global Warming
• could be an example of
• how we affect the environment

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HEI Global Warming
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Place E G O P
Location A I Q
Can you place the geographic term with the
correct geographic theme!?!?
Can you place the geographic term with the
correct geographic theme!?!?
Location A I Q
Location A I Q
Location A I Q
Location A I Q
Location A I Q
Location A I Q
Place E G O P
Place E G O P
Place E G O P
Region C F K
Movement D L M
Region C F K
Region C F K
Region C F K
Region C F K
Region C F K
Movement D L M
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Equator Building roads Southwest Asia Visiting
another country On an island Western US A very
hot climate Planting crops longitude
Equator Building roads Southwest Asia Visiting
another country On an island Western US A very
hot climate Planting crops longitude
Equator Building roads Southwest Asia Visiting
another country On an island Western US A very
hot climate Planting crops longitude
Equator Building roads Southwest Asia Visiting
another country On an island Western US A very
hot climate Planting crops longitude
Equator Building roads Southwest Asia Visiting
another country On an island Western US A very
hot climate Planting crops longitude
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Cutting down forests Your neighborhood Changing
your address Written letters Building new
houses Areas with little rainfall Swiss chalets
high mts Switzerland Texas is south of Oklahoma
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Cutting down forests Your neighborhood Changing
your address Written letters Building new
houses Areas with little rainfall Swiss chalets
high mts Switzerland Texas is south of Oklahoma
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Cutting down forests Your neighborhood Changing
your address Written letters Building new
houses Areas with little rainfall Swiss chalets
high mts Switzerland Texas is south of Oklahoma
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Cutting down forests Your neighborhood Changing
your address Written letters Building new
houses Areas with little rainfall Swiss chalets
high mts Switzerland Texas is south of Oklahoma
Human/Environment Interaction B H J N
Cutting down forests Your neighborhood Changing
your address Written letters Building new
houses Areas with little rainfall Swiss chalets
high mts Switzerland Texas is south of Oklahoma
a) Equator b) Building roads c) Southwest Asia d)
Visiting another country e) On an island f)
Western US g) A very hot climate h) Planting
crops i) longitude
j) Cutting down forests k) Your neighborhood l)
Changing your address m) Written letters n)
Building new houses o) Areas with little
rainfall p) Swiss chalets high mts
Switzerland q) Texas is south of Oklahoma
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Place
Location
Can you place the geographic term with the
correct geographic theme!?!?
Region
Movement
Human/Environment Interaction
a) Equator b) Building roads c) Southwest Asia d)
Visiting another country e) On an island f)
Western US g) A very hot climate h) Planting
crops i) longitude
j) Cutting down forests k) Your neighborhood l)
Changing your address m) Written letters n)
Building new houses o) Areas with little
rainfall p) Swiss chalets high mts
Switzerland q) Texas is south of Oklahoma
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Easy way to remember.

• Always ask MR. HELP.
• M - Movement
• R - Region
• HE - Human Environment Interaction
• L - Location
• P - Place