The document discusses the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. It defines each theme and provides examples. Location refers to where things are found and includes absolute and relative location. Place describes what a location looks like using physical and human characteristics. Human-environment interaction is how humans modify, adapt to, and depend on the environment. Movement is how people, goods, and ideas travel between places, using three types of distance. Region is an area defined by common characteristics, including formal, functional, and perceptual regions.

1. The Five Themes of
Geography
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2. Location
Definition: Where something can
be found on the Earth
Two types of location:
-Absolute Location
-Relative Location

3. Absolute Location shows the
exact point on the Earth’s
surface where something is
located
-Address
-Latitude/Longitude
Relative Location explains
where something is in relation
to another
-Cardinal directions
-“Next to,” “Down from…”

4. Place
Definition: Describes what a
location looks like
Describe using:
-Physical Characteristics
-Human Characteristics

5. Physical Characteristics
include anything that is
nature made:
-Trees, shrubs
-Mountains, rocks
Human Characteristics include
anything that is human made:
-Buildings, roads, cars
-Human culture,
language, customs

6. Human Environment Interaction
Definition: How people interact
with the environment
Humans interact three ways (MAD):
-Modify
-Adapt
-Depend

7. Modify means that humans
change the environment:
-Build Houses
-Dams, Cut Trees
Adapt means humans change
their life to live/survive in the
environment:
-Air-conditioning, heat
-Sunglasses
Depend means humans rely on
the environment:
-Fishing, crops
-Oxygen

8. Movement
Definition: How people, goods,
and ideas move
between places:
Spatial Interaction

9. Movement of Goods:
-Truck, ship,
-Plane, train
Movement of People:
-Bus, car
-Walking, bike
Movement of Ideas:
-Internet, e-mail
-Phone, letters

10. Linear Distance:
-The actual distance a person,
product, or idea travels
Time Distance:
-How long it takes for a
person, product or idea to
travel a certain distance
Psychological Distance
-How long it feels like a person,
product, or idea travels
-How people perceive distance
Geographers use three types of distance to analyze
movement:

11. Region
Definition: An area that is defined
by common characteristics (two
or more places).
Types of Regions:
--Formal
-Functional
-Perceptual

12. Formal Regions are defined by one or
more measurable, shared traits that
distinguish them from the
surrounding area:
-States, Countries
-Counties Functional Regions are
defined by a system of
interactions:
- A city and its road
networks
Perceptual Regions are
defined by peopls attitudes
and feelings about an area
-Southern California
-The South
-The Middle East