5 Themes of Geography

1. What theme asks the questions: What is it like there? What are its natural, non-human and human characteristics?

• Place

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Movement

• Location

1. What theme asks the question: Where is it?

• Place

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Movement

• Location

1. What theme asks the question: Where is it?

• Place

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Location

1. What theme asks the question: How do things get from place to place?

• Movement

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Location

1. What theme asks questions about how people depend, adapt and change the environment?

• Movement

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Location

1. What theme could be applied to non-human features, like weather, landforms, bodies of water, and soil?

• Movement

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Place

1. What theme could be applied to humans clearing forests and paving a road?

• Movement

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Place

1. What theme could be applied to using the internet to connect with someone across the world?

• Movement

• Human/Environment Interaction

• Region

• Place

1. What theme could be applied to entering an address and following directions to an exact spot?

• Movement

• Location

• Region

• Place

1. What theme could be applied to how a place is divided or grouped, like how the U.S. has areas called the Midwest and Pacific Coast?

• Movement

• Location

• Region

• Place