This document defines geography and its five main themes: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. Geography is the study of the relationship between people and their environments. The five themes are used to understand different places and how they relate to each other through location, characteristics, human impact, connectivity, and regional similarities. Understanding these themes provides context to better analyze places and events throughout history.

2. OBJECTIVES :
•Define Geography and enumerate
its five (5) themes
•Recognize the importance of
geography in shaping history

4. Essential Questions :
1. What is the news all about?
2. How can you connect it to the
history, present and in future?
3. What are the possible solutions
in solving the problem?

5. GROUP ACTIVITY
“Think-Share”

6. GEOGRAPHY
Greek word geographia meaning “writing
about or describing about earth”.
The study of places and the relationships
between people and their environments

7. GEOGRAPHY
LOCATION PLACE
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
INTERACTION
REGIONMOVEMENT

8. LOCATION
A place or position of a certain thing
ABSOLUTE
LOCATION
RELATIVE
LOCATION
(Where is it located?)

9. PLACE
Physical features of a place
(What's it like there?)

10. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
INTERACTION
Man’s contact with his environment
(What is the relationship between humans
and their environment?)

11. MOVEMENT
Describe people, good and
ideas move throughout the
area
(How and why are places connected
with one another?)

12. MOVEMENTThree types of
People
Goods
Ideas

13. REGION
It is a group of places with at
least one common
characteristics ( e.g language)
(How and why is one area similar to
another?)

14. -No one theme can be
understood without the
others
-The themes are connected
with one another, as are all
components of our world.

15. M R H E L P
MOVEMENT
REGION
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
INTERACTION
LOCATION
PLACE

16. How will the 5 themes of
geography help you understand
a place better?
(5 SENTENCES)

17. Enumerate the Continents of
the world. Describe each
using at least 2
characteristics.