five themes of geography
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Five Themes of Geography
Mr. Jeremy Rinkel
The Five Themes of Geography • Used to help understand why and how
things are different in geography
• Are used to help you think like a geographer
Location
• “How do I get There?”• Means knowing where you are• Exact Location: using latitude and longitude
gives you an exact position on the globe– Also know as absolute location
• Relative Location: Finding a place or location by finding out how far and in what direction it is from somewhere else
Absolute Location
• using latitude and longitude gives you an exact position on the globe
X
• Reason for its location : understanding how the geography of an area helped or hurt the development of that area
Place
• “What is it like to live there?”
• Means more than where a place is, but also describes what a place is like.
• Physical Characteristics
• Human Characteristics
• Movie
Physical Characteristics
• Geographers look at the following to understand place:– Landscape– Habitat– Climate – Natural Disasters
Landscape
Habitat
Climate
Natural Disasters
Human Characteristics
• Geographers also look at these areas to understand place:– Religion– Types of houses– Clothing– Traditions– Lifestyles
Religions
Types of Houses
Clothing
Traditions
Lifestyles
Human Environment Interaction
• “How do people relate to the land?”
• Means where ever people have lived they have changed their environment or have been changed by it.
• Adapt to the Environment
• Change the Environment
• Depend on the Enviroment
Adapt to Environment
• Clothing Styles – Summer/ Winter clothes, building houses on hillsides, irrigation of crops
Change the Environment
• Cut down trees and rain forests, use grasslands to graze herds, mine the earth
Depend on the Environment
• Depend on Coal, Iron Ore, good soil to grow crops, water supply, etc. Jobs.
Movement
• “How are people, goods, and ideas moved into and out of an area?”
• Helps geographers understand relationships among places
• Goods: imports/exports buy/sell• People: immigration, naturalization, ancestors• By what means: ideas are transported by people,
TV, Radio, automobile, plane, FAX, internet
Region
• “Geographers invent them.”
• Developed by geographers based on different physical or human features
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