1. What is geography?

2. Geography is the study of earth.
• Geographers ask: Where is it? Why is it there? What effects do the
environment have on life?

3. The Five Themes of Geography
Help to understand the world.
Key areas to learn about when studying a place or concept.
Location
Place
Region
Movement
Human/ Environment Interaction

4. Location Location asks: Where is it located?
▪ It tells us where a point is on the Earth’s surface.

5. Location
An absolute location can be a latitude and longitude point or a street address.
The address where you live:
555 Main Street
Latitude: 55° North
Longitude: 9° West

6. Location
A relative location is given in relation to borders, landmarks, distance, or direction.

7. Place ▪These may include climate, people, and landforms. Place asks:
What does it look like?
▪These may include climate, people, and landforms.

8. Place The sunny islands of Hawaii have
beaches, tourists, and military bases.

9. Regions Regions ask: How and why is one place similar to another?
Areas of the earth that are alike in some way.

10. Regions
Places united by common characteristics.

11. Southwest Region
The southwest region of the U.S. is know to have a hot and dry climate and share a border with Mexico to the south.

12. Movement Movement asks:
How and why are places connected with one another?
We travel and communicate with one another. We depend on each other for products and ideas.

13. Movement Internet Travel
How people share ideas, people, and goods to shape the world.

14. Human-Environment Interaction
Interaction asks:
What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
How people react to and change the environment.

15. Human-Environment Interaction
People getting along with nature

16. Why are the five themes important when studying a new place?
Journaling
Why are the five themes important when studying a new place?