1. The Five Themes of Geography

2. Let’s Review: Quickly in your notes write down the SEVEN continents AND the Five oceans
Asia
Europe
Africa
Australia/Oceania
Antarctica
North America
South America
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean

3. Why study geography?
It affects where people live.
It affects how people live.
It affects the outcome of major events.

4. THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

5. LOCATION Where we are. Absolute Location Relative Location
A latitude and longitude (global location) or a street address (local location).
Washington D.C
39 Degrees N
77 Degrees W
The White House is located at Pennsylvania Ave.
Relative Location
Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance. From one place to another.
Washington D.C. is located on the east coast of the US.

6. Absolute Location: Latitude Lines AKA Parallels
Latitude lines are drawn from:
East to West
Latitude lines measure:
North to South

7. Absolute Location: The Major Line of LATITUDE is the: Equator
It splits the Earth into:
the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres

8. Define Hemisphere:
Half of a globe
(in our case the Earth)

9. Absolute Location: Absolute Location Longitude Lines AKA Meridians
Longitude lines are drawn from:
North to South
Longitude lines measure:
East to West

10. The Major Line of LONGITUDE is the:
Absolute Location:
The Major Line of LONGITUDE is the:
Prime Meridian
It splits the Earth into:
the Eastern and
Western Hemispheres

11. Human Characteristics Physical Characteristics
PLACE
What is it like there, what kind of place is it? Describes place in terms of both physical and human characteristics.
Human Characteristics
What are the main languages, customs, and beliefs.
How many people live, work, and visit a place.
Physical Characteristics
Landforms (mountains, rivers, etc.), climate, vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.

12. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
How humans and the environment have affected each other.
We depend on it.
People depend on the Mississippi River for water and transportation.
We modify it.
People modify our environment by
heating and cooling buildings for comfort.
We adapt to it.
We adapt to the environment by wearing
clothing suitable for summer (shorts) and
winter (coats), rain and shine.

13. MOVEMENT
Movement is how people, goods, and ideas are moved from place to place.
Human Movement
Trucks, Trains, Planes
Information Movement
Phones, computer ( ), mail
Idea Movement
How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines

14. PEOPLE AND THEIR PERSONAL STUFF
Movement:
GOODS
What can move??
PEOPLE AND THEIR PERSONAL STUFF
MONEY
IDEAS

15. FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION
Movement:
How can things move??
WORD OF MOUTH
COMPUTERS
FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION
TELEPHONES
SATELLITES

16. Movement:
Through movement we connect all of our world together.
This is called globalization!
When we are interdependent on each other for our economy, culture, politics, socialization, and technology.

18. REGIONS Regions are areas that share some common characteristics.
Formal Regions
Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States, Countries, Cities)
Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain region, Chinatown).
Functional Regions
Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell phone coverage area).

19. Remembering the 5 themes
If you can’t remember what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
M – Movement
R – Regions
HE – Human Environment interaction
L – Location
P - Place

20. Human/Environment Interaction:
Location:
Place:
Can you place the geographic term with the correct geographic theme!?!?
Movement:
Five
Themes of Geography
Region:
Human/Environment Interaction:
Cutting down forests
Your neighborhood
Changing your address
Handwritten letters to a friend
Building new houses
Areas with little rainfall
Swiss chalets & high mountains = Switzerland
Texas is south of Oklahoma
Equator
Building roads
Southwest Asia
Visiting another country
On an island
The Western US
Planting crops
Latitude/longitude coordinates