1. Place Location Region Movement Human/Environmental Interaction
5 Themes of Geography
Place
Location
Region
Movement
Human/Environmental Interaction

2. 5 Themes of Geography Content Objective
The student will define and explain examples of the five themes of geography.

3. PLACE
All places have attributes that give them meaning and character and distinguish them from other places on earth. Geographers describe place by two specific definitions:
Physical Characteristics The physical characteristics of a place make up its natural environment and are derived from geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological processes. They include land forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life.
Human Characteristics: The human characteristics of a place come from human ideas and actions. They include bridges, houses, and parks. Human characteristics of place also include land use, density of population, language patterns, religion, architecture, and political systems.
All places have characteristics that give them meaning and character and distinguish them from other places on earth. Geographers describe places by their physical and human characteristics. Physical characteristics include such elements as animal life. Human characteristics of the landscape can be noted in architecture, patterns of livelihood, land use and ownership, town planning, and communication and transportation networks. Languages, as well as religious and political ideologies, help shape the character of a place. Studied together, the physical and human characteristics of places provide clues to help students understand the nature of places on the earth.

4. PLACE Physical Characteristics
Those physical features about a place that make it unique

5. PLACE
Physical Characteristics
Where are these places??

6. PLACE
Physical Characteristics
Where would you find these
animals??

7. PLACE Physical Characteristics What are some of the physical
characteristics that make
Leland unique

8. PLACE Human Characteristics
Human Characteristics: The human characteristics of a place come from human
ideas and actions. They include bridges, houses, and parks. Human characteristics
of place also include land use, density of population, language patterns, religion,
architecture, and political systems.

9. PLACE
Human Characteristics
political systems

10. PLACE
Human Characteristics
Architecture

11. PLACE
Human Characteristics

12. PLACE
Human Characteristics

13. LOCATION
Location is the second theme of Geography. Location describes where something is, and is broken into two areas:
Absolute Location: answers the questions: Where is it? Absolute location is nothing more than a simple dot--often identified as a grid coordinate on the surface of the earth.
Latitude and Longitude can be used to pinpoint a location. For example, the absolute location of New Orleans, Louisiana, is 30 degrees north, 90 degrees west. Finding absolute location is the starting point for geographic research.

14. LOCATION
Location is the second theme of Geography. Location describes where something is, and is broken into two areas:
Relative Location: answers the question of where a place is located in relation to other places. For example, New Orleans is located at the place where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico, which gives it easy access to ocean and river shipping. Your home has a relative location. Where is it located in relation to schools, stores, and convenient transportation?

15. LOCATION
Absolute Location in practice

16. LOCATION Absolute Location in practice Not very accurate
in the beginning

17. LOCATION Absolute Location in practice Satellite and Global
Positioning Systems

18. LOCATION
Relative Location in practice
Near what city??

19. REGION Regions are created by geographers to helps study place
– to describe and compare them, for example.
Various features are used to classify a place as a region.
A region shares the same physical feature(s) — such as
land, climate, natural resources, vegetation — or
cultural feature(s) — such as language, history,
population, or religion.
Boundaries of regions change, depending on what
characteristic(s) are being examined.

20. REGION One of the most basic regions used by
geographers is continents.

21. REGION
Regions Based on
Physical Features
Language
Regions

22. REGION
Population Density
and
Ethnic Regions

23. MOVEMENT The theme of movement addresses this question:
How and why are places connected with one
another?
Relationships between people in different places
are shaped by the constant movement of people,
ideas, materials, and physical systems such as
wind, climate, and volcanoes.

24. MOVEMENT Movement of People: Movement of Land:
Immigration/Emigration, Urbanization, and Population
Movement of Land:
Plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes

25. MOVEMENT Movement of People:
Understanding the patterns of human movement, the causes, and outcomes of that movement, and the process of that movement

26. MOVEMENT
Movement of Land:

27. Human/Environmental Interaction
Refers to how people affect their environment.
Humans adapt to and modify their environment for
survival.
Different societies interact with their environment
differently. The earth’s vegetation zones, natural
resources, and energy development play a significant
role in the development of a society.

28. Human/Environmental Interaction
Humans have settled in virtually every corner of the world by successfully adapting to various natural settings. For example, people who live in the northeastern United States use heating units to keep their homes warm in winter People in the southern part of the country use air conditioning much of the year to stay cool in the heat. The ways people choose to adapt to their settings reflect their economic and political circumstances and their technological abilities.

29. Human/Environmental Interaction
How would people need to adapt to or modify their environment to survive in the desert?
Desert

30. Human/Environmental Interaction
Desert
Savanna
Tropical
How would people need
to adapt to or modify their
environment to survive in
these other places?

31. Human/Environmental Interaction
What about here?
Prairie

32. Human/Environmental Interaction
How have people adapted to or modified these environoments?

33. Human/Environmental Interaction
What kinds of modifications are illustrated here?

34. Place Location Region Movement Human/Environmental Interaction
5 Themes of Geography
Place
Location
Region
Movement
Human/Environmental Interaction

35. 5 Themes of Geography Content Objective
The student will define and explain examples of the five themes of geography.