5 Themes of Geography

What is a Region

• Areas that are alike, and what they have in common characteristics(government, weather, economy).

• Describes a place is with cardinal directions

• Tells us where people and places are

• Describes how people goods and ideas get around.

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.

• Describes how people change or modify the environment.

What is absolute location?

• Tells us where people and places are using longitude and latitude.

• 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.

• Describes how people change or modify the environment.

Longitude lines run _________.

• East/West
• North South

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

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement

The Middle East is an example of which?

• Human-Environment Interaction
• Relative Location
• Movement
• Region

The fact that Africa is south of Europe is an example of which?

• Movement
• Absolute Location
• Relative Location
• Place

The European Union is a group of countries that share similar economic and government policies, in addition to all being located near one another and sharing a common history.

• Human Environment Interaction
• Place
• Region
• Location

What is the Relative Location of the Gulf of Mexico?

• west of Houston
• 85 degrees W by 27 degrees N
• 85 degrees N by 27 degrees W
• west of Miami

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