1. Geography 12

2. The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Nature of Place
Human and Environmental Interaction
Regions
Movement

3. Location
Location of a place can be expressed in terms of its proximity or distance from another place.
Absolute location pinpoints a place on the surface of the Earth.
It is based on a grid system such as latitude and longitude.
“Where is it?”

8. Examples of Location: Latitude and Longitude UTM Grid References
Topographic features

9. Nature of Place
The physical, natural, and human characteristics that describe a place and distinguish it from other places.
“What is it like when you get there?”

11. Examples of Place:
Topography
Climate
Cultural features
Economics …

12. Human and Environmental Interaction
The nature of the interactions between physical, natural, and human environments, and the consequences of those interactions for people and places.
“What is happening there?”

16. Examples of Relationships Between Human and Environment:
How one aspect depends on another (abiotic and biotic)
How one aspect adapts to another apsect (abiotic and biotic)
How one element can modivy the environment for all the other aspects (biotic and abiotic)

17. Regions
Areas that have similar characteristics, according to a set of chosen criteria.
Regions are the basic units of geographic study
“What is it similar to?”

20. Example of Regions:
Common or distinctive characteristics (human, natural, abiotic or biotic)
Ethnic Regions
Physiographic Regions
Climate Regions
Language Regions …

21. Movement
The interactions, interrelationships, and interdependencies of people and places across the face of the Earth.
Movement can involve ideas, information, communications of many kinds, as well as the physical movement of people and goods.
“What is going where and why?”

26. Examples of Movement:
Identify patterns of movement with living populations
Identify patterns with physical systems of the earth

27. Review of: The Five Themes of Geography