1. Assignment # _____. Name: _____________________________
Assignment # _____ Name: _____________________________ Date: ______________________________ Period: ____________________________ 5 Themes of Geography-Notes
Facts:
Tectonic Plate movement causes Continents to shift
Causes Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanic Eruptions and Mountain Formation
Geography-Study of people, places and the environment
LOCATION-Geography theme divided into “Absolute” and “Relative Location”
A. Absolute Location-Exact spot in the earth where a place is found and uses Lines of Latitude and Longitude
B. Relative Location-Where one place is in relation to other places

2. IV. MOVEMENT-How people, goods or ideas get from one place to another.
II. PLACE-Geography theme that describes a place’s “Physical” and “Cultural Characteristics”
A. Physical Characteristics-How landforms, bodies of water and climate describe a place.
B. Cultural Characteristics-How language, religion, food sports or customs describe a place where people live.
III. HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION- How humans depend on, adapt to and modify their lives to live in a certain environment.
IV. MOVEMENT-How people, goods or ideas get from one place to another.
V. REGION-A group of places bound together by either Physical or Cultural Characteristics.