5 Themes and Landforms vocab

The way information, people, and 

products travel around the world.

• Place

• Movement

• Region

• Location

Describes a specific location using both

human and physical characteristics

• Place

• Region

• Human/Env Interaction

• Location

Explains where something is

• Place

• Movement

• Human/Env Interaction

• Location

the relationships between humans and 

the environment in which they live

• Region

• Movement

• Human/Env Interaction

• Place

a group of places unified by a 

common feature

• Loaction

• Region

• Place

• Human/Env Interaction

a piece of ground completely surrounded by water

• Lake

• Estuary

• Island

• Plateau

Smaller, less steep landforms

• Valleys

• Hills

• Plains

• Lagoons

the low areas between mountains

• Plateaus

• Estuarys

• Plains

• Valleys

Large areas of raised land that are flat on top

• Plateau

• Plain

• Valley

• Island

Large areas of flat land with no hills or mountains

• Hills

• Valleys

• Plains

• Lagoons