five themes of geography ncscos: goal 1. what are the five themes of geography? 1.location 2.place...
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Five Themes of
GeographyNCSCOS: Goal 1
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
1. Location2. Place3. Human-Environment Interactions4. Movement5. Regions
Location
•Everything on Earth has its own location – the place where it can be found.
Where Are We?
1. Earth2. North America
3. United States
3. United States
4. North Carolina
4. North Carolina
5. Onslow County
Onslow County• http://northcarolina.hometownlocator.com/n
c/onslow/
Place• Every place has physical and human
features that make it different from all other places. –Physical features are formed by
nature. –Human features are made by people.
Physical Features… Human Features…
Onslow County Beaches
Onslow County New River
Onslow County Bridges
Onslow County Vietnam Memorial
Human-Environment Interactions
• People and their surroundings interact, or affect each other. People’s activities may change the environment. The environment may affect people. Sometimes people must change how they live to fit into their surroundings.
Richlands Farmers Day Onslow County Farms
Onslow County Fair
Movement
• People, goods, and ideas move every day. They move in your state, our country, and around the world.
Regions
• Areas of Earth with main features that make them different from other areas called regions. – A region can be described by its physical features or its
human features.
Coastal Plain Region
Piedmont Region
Mountain Region
North Carolina’s Regions
• North Carolina has three major regions:– Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Regions– The Coastal Plain Regions is split into two areas:
• the Inner Coastal Plains • the Outer Costal Plains (the Outer Banks)
Outer Coastal Plains
Inner Coastal Plains
Coastal Plains
Piedmont
Mountain