1. The 5 Themes of Geography
Place
What is it like to live there?
Describe the physical features
Describe the cultural features.
Location
How do I get there?
Absolute Location: Latitude and longitude
Relative Location: What is it near?
Human-Environment Interaction
How do people relate to the land?
The 5 Themes of Geography
Movement
How are people, goods and ideas moved into and out of the place?
How do people get from here to there?
Regions
Geographers invent regions.
They carve the world into physical and cultural regions.
The computer is an example of movement because I am sharing ideas online with my friends
Mrs. DelGrosso
Period 5