5 Themes of Geography

What is a Region

• Tells us ways in which the places in an area are alike
• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area
• Tells us where people and places are

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is movement?

• Tells us how people, goods, recourses, and ideas move from one place to another
• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area
• Tells us ways in which the places in an area are alike.

What is location?

• Tells us where people and places are
• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area.
• Tells how people, goods, resources, and ideas move from one place to another.

Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which?

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement

The states in the area known as the "Southwest" of the United States are often grouped together because they are very hot and dry desert-like areas.

• Region
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction
• Movement

The Five Themes of Geography are the Following:

• Place, Region, Interaction, Land-forms, Movement
• Place, Region, Interaction, Location, Movement
• People, Race, Interaction, Location Movement
• Power, Region, Interaction, Location Movement

This theme of Geography describes what the location is like. 

• Absolute Location
• Relative Location
• Place
• Region

The study of the Earths surface, climate, landforms, and bodies of water.

• Migration
• Geography
• Social Studies
• Geology

How people and their surroundings interact

• human/environment interaction
• Place
• Region
• Location

The name for 0^o Longitude

• Latitude
• Longitude
• Prime Meridian
• Equator