5 Themes of Geography  The 5 Big Ideas in Geography:  Location  Place  Region  Movement  Human Environmental Interaction

Location  Where a location can be found.  Absolute location: where something is exactly.  Relative location: where something is in relationship to another location.

Movement  The theme of Geography the explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one location to another.

Region  The Theme of Geography that defines locations that have characteristics in common. They can be physical, like deserts, mountains, beaches, or cultural, like ethnic regions, or political regions.

Human Environmental Interaction  The theme of Geography that describes how people adapt to, change, and/or use the environment around them.

Place  The theme of Geography that describes all the physical and human features that are found in a specific location.