The Five Themes of Geography

5 THEMES

There are 5 themes that make up physical and human geography:1.LOCATION2.PLACE3.HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION4.MOVEMENT5.REGIONS

2. Try and think of a way to describe the difference between “relative “ and “absolute” location

Theme One: Location Every point on earth has a location or a description of where it is.

You could say the White House is located in Washington D.C. (Relative location) or you could say the White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (Absolute location).

1. Try and explain where you live giving a relative location and an absolute location.

Theme Two: Place

• Place is created by different physical features (geography) and the people (man made items, culture etc.) that make it unique or different from other places.

Take a look at the picture. What do you think would be a physical feature and what do you think a human (people) feature would be?

Theme Three: Human- Environment Interaction

• An area’s environment includes its land, water, climate, plants and animals.

• How do people & their environments affect each other?

• How do they:• Depend on the environment • Adapt to the environment • Change the environment

Look at this picture of Northern Ireland.

List one way that people might:Depend on the environmentAdapt to the environmentChange the environment

Theme Four: Movement

• Geographers want to know how and why people move around

• Can you think of a way people move around? List 2• Can you think of a reason why someone would move?

Study this map of Massachusetts, list 2 reasons why people might move to a certain part of Massachusetts from June – August

Theme Five: Regions • Dividing the world into many regions

makes the world easier:• to study • To compare • To organize by physical and human characteristics • Regions can be very different from one another

Give an example from the map of how two regions can be drastically

different .