5 Themes of Geography

Match the following

• Place

• How are people, goods, ideas moved from place

  to place?

• Movement

• How do humans and the environment affect

  each other?

• Humans & Environment

• A group of places that share similar features

• Regions

• Physical features and human features

• Location

• Where something

  is on earth

Cars, Trains, Planes : ​ (a)  

• goods movement

• How do fads move from place to place?

  TV, Radio

  Phones, Internet

• human movement

• migration from one place to another

• idea movement

• wants and needs moving from manufacturet

Match the following

• political regions

• Regions defined by physical features Rio Grande Valley, Rocky

  Mountain region

• informal regions

• Regions defined by peoples perception (middle east, the south, etc.)

• physical regions

• Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States,

  Countries, Cities)

  Regions defined by economic characteristics (Rust Belt, Dust Bowl).

How do humans and the environment affect

each other?

• We depend on it.

• We adapt to it.

• We modify it.

• All of these

Match the following

• We depend on our environment.

• We need the Mississippi River for water and transportation.

• We adapt to our environment.

• We wear clothes.

• We modify/change our environment.

• People build dams, bridges and

  levees. We also heat and cool buildings for comfort.

A latitude and longitude

(global location) or a

street address (local

location) : ​ (a)  

• absolute location
• relative location

Described by landmarks,

time, direction or distance

from one place to

another : ​ (a)  

• relative location
• absolute location

What are the main

languages, customs, and

beliefs?

How many people live,

work, and visit a place?

• human characteristics of place

• physical characteristics of place

Landforms (mountains,

rivers, etc.), climate,

vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.

• human characteristics of place

• physical characteristics of place

Match the following

• regions

• We depend on it, modify it, and change it.

• movement

• Political defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States,

  Countries, Cities)
  
  Physical defined by physical features Rio Grande Valley, Rocky

  Mountains

• human-environment interaction

• Humans, goods, and ideas going from place to place.

• location

• Absolute defined by address or latitude-longitude.
  
  Relative defined by landmarks,

  time, direction or distance

  from one place to

  another.

• place

• Human

  Characteristics

  What are the main

  languages, customs, and

  beliefs.

  How many people live,

  work, and visit a place.
  
  Physical

  Characteristics

  Landforms (mountains,

  rivers, etc.), climate,

  vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.