1. Geography’s Five Themes
Core Concepts 1.2

2. Essential Question: What are Themes of Geography?
Geographers use five different themes or ways of thinking
They help geographer’s two basic questions:
Where are things located?
What is it like there?

3. Theme one: Location Two types of location.
Absolute location- describes a place’s exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude.
-Your address is an example of an absolute location.
Relative location-the location of a place relative to another place.
-Example Statement: I live in Indiana. -

4. Where in the Universe is Cedar Lake, Indiana?
Finding Absolute Location
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5. Theme two: Place
Place refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features in a given location.
May include geographic features such as mountains, lakes and rivers as well as climate.
Example: Cedar Lake is a small town in Northwest Indiana that has hot summers, cold winters and a mild fall and spring season.

6. Theme three: Region
A region is an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history.
Example: A desert is a region based on landforms and climate.

7. Theme four: Movement
Movement explores how people, goods (things) and ideas get from one place to another.
Why are you living in Cedar Lake?

8. Theme five: Human-Environment Interaction
Human-Environment Interaction considers how people affect their environment and how their environment affects them.
Example: deforestation, acid rain, cities built, creation of farmland