1. The Five Themes of Geography
How geographers look at the world
Geography is the study of earth and its people.

2. Why study geography?
To understand more about the changing world we live in
To learn more about the people and cultures of the world so that we can better understand each other
To evaluate the connection between the earth and those who live on it
It is just another way to explain the world we live in.

3. What are the Five Themes of Geography?
The concepts or ideas that geographers use to study the world and the people that inhabit it.
They are all connected
Use all five themes to truly understand the geography of a place

4. Asks the question: Where is it?
Location
Asks the question: Where is it?
Here’s Madagascar!

5. Can be absolute location, which uses a system to find an exact spot on the earth.
Examples: latitude and longitude, street address with zip codes, GPS, map coordinates

6. My friend lives about two blocks south from me.
Can be relative location, which uses descriptions to find places on the earth.
Example: I buy coffee at McDonalds on the same side of the street as Desert Foothills Park.
My friend lives about two blocks south from me.
Other examples?

7. Place Asks: What are the characteristics of a location?
Describes what it is like there
For example: How would you describe the physical and human features of the Foothills? Any other ideas?

8. Can be physical features
Climate – temperature, rainfall, arid
Landforms – plateaus, plains, desert
Topography - elevation
Flora - plants
Fauna - animals
Resources – copper, gemstones

9. Can be human characteristics
Such as population statistics, economic activities, religion, language, government

10. How do people, goods and ideas get from one place to another?
Movement
How do people, goods and ideas get from one place to another?

11. Examples of movement Shipping products or goods between countries
Migration of people to new areas
Buying clothes over the internet
Flying overseas to visit your relatives
Coming to school on the bus this morning
Urban sprawl
What are some other ideas?

12. Human Environment Interaction
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How do we use the earth? How have we changed the earth?

13. Examples of HEI Growing cotton in Arizona
Mining copper in Bisbee, Arizona
Hiking up South Mountain
Fishing on Canyon Lake
Cars consuming gasoline and polluting the air
Altadeña Middle School built out of brick
Cutting down trees in the Rain Forest so homes can be built
What are some other ideas?

14. Region How is this place similar to other places?
Are there common characteristics?

15. There are two different types of regions:
Physical characteristics –southwest region, Amazon Rainforest, Valley of the Sun, Chinatown, Middle East, Roman Empire, and desert
Cultural characteristics – language ex. Spanish, religion ex. Buddhist, government ex. democracy,
Regions can overlap!

16. Know these themes! Definitions Examples Questions they answer
We will use them throughout the year as we analyze the different areas of the world!