Three of Five Themes - Geography

1. What is location?

• What's it like there?
• Where is it located?
• How and why are places connected with one another?
• Option 4

2. What is Place?

• What's it like there?
• How and why are places connected with one another?
• Where is it located?

3. What is Human/Environment Interaction?

• Where is it located?
• What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
• How and why is one area similar to another?

4. What question does Absolute Location answer?

• What is is like there?
• Where is it?

5. What do you use to find absolute location?

• Latitude and Longitude
• where a place is in relation to another place

6. What is Relative Location?

• the relationship of a place to other places
• specifically where a place is using latitude and longitude

7. What is an example of Relative location?

• 20 degrees north and 92 degrees east
• New Orleans is located at the place where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico

8. Place: They include bridges houses, and parks. Human characteristics of place also include land use, density of population, language patterns, religion, architecture, and political systems Question: How would you describe where you live physically? Is your place flat or hilly, hot or cold, wet or dry? What natural resources are found there?

9. What from our environment do we depend on?

• phones, cars, friends
• food, shelter, clothing

10. How do humans modify/change their environment?