Five Themes of Geography

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The Five Themes of Geography help categorize information about geography.

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Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region

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Location provides a way of locating places.

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Absolute Location and Relative Location

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Absolute Location

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The exact point where a place is located, determined by longitude and latitude or GPS.

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Relative Location

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Where a place is in relation to other places.

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Place includes the characteristics of a location.

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Defined by landforms and human development, such as rivers and mountains.

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Human-Environment Interaction

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How people affect the environment and how the environment affects people.

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Movement

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Explained by how people, ideas, and animals move from one place to another.

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Region

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A group of places with common characteristics, divided into human or physical characteristics.

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The World in Spatial Terms

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Tools like maps that study places on the Earth's surface.

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Physical Systems

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Earth's physical processes, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanoes.