3. What is Geography?
Geography is the study of
Earth’s surface, lands,
features and people.
4. What are the five themes of
Geography?
The five themes of geography are location,
place, region, human environmental
interaction (HEI) and movement.
6. Why were the 5 themes of Geography
created?
The five themes of geography
were created by Geographers to
help them organize information.
7. The First Theme: Location
How would you define the word location? Give
me some examples of locations.
8. Location
Location answers the question “Where are
we?”
In the 5 themes of Geography there are two
types of locations: Relative and Absolute
locations.
9. Absolute Location:
Absolute location: describes an exact place on earth.
It requires latitude and longitude coordinates. It can
give you a global location (using latitude and
longitude) or a local location (street address).
10. Relative Location:
Relative location describes the position of a place in
relation to another place. The position can be
described using landmarks, directions, time or
distance from one place to another.
With your neighbor, describe the relative location of
Durant Road Middle School. Be prepared to share
with the class your description
11. Relative vs. Absolute Location:
Relative Location Absolute Location
Relative location: locations Absolute location: gives a
described specific form of location.
directions, time, landmarks or
distance.
Example:
The White House is
Example: located at 1600
Tennessee is west of North Pennsylvania Ave.
Carolina Washington D.C. 20500
12. Place:
Place is defined as an area that has features
that distinguish them from other places. Places
are unique.
Place describes the human and physical
characteristics of a location.
13. Place – Physical Features
Landforms, climate, wildlife, natural resources,
architecture, mountains, rivers and other
factors that make a place unique.
14. Place – Human Features
Language, food, religion, ethnicity, clothing,
customs, government and other factors
16. Human Environmental Interaction
(HEI):
HEI looks at the relationship between people
and their environment.
3 categories of HEI: depend, adapt and modify
What are some examples of how we depend
upon, adapt and modify our environment?
17. HEI Activity:
Get out a sheet of paper.
You are going to listen to the story The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss.
You are going to write down examples of HEI.
18. Region:
A region is an area that is defined by certain
similar characteristics. Those similar
characteristics can be
physical, natural, human or cultural.
Have you heard about or can you name any
examples of regions?
Regions are a way to describe and compare
places
19. Region:
Regions can be defined in many different ways.
For example:
1.) Language type
2.)Landform groups (Piedmont, Coastal plain,
mountains)
3.)Government or political regions
21. Movement:
Movement describes how people,
products/goods, information and ideas move
from in between countries. (or from one place
to another)
*How do ideas and information move?
*How do products/good move?
*How do people move?