5 Themes of Geography

What is a Region

• An area that has common characteristics

• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area
• Tells us where people and places are

What is movement?

• Tells us how people, goods, animals, 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.

What is location?

• Tells us where people and places are, concerning absolute and relative location

• 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.

When it is raining outside and you put on your rain jacket and rain boots.

What is this an example of?

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement

The Mid-West is an example of which?

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

The states in the area known as the "Southwest" of the United States are often grouped together because they are very hot and dry desert-like areas.

• Region
• Location
• Human Environment Interaction
• Movement

Using lines of latitude and longitude to find an exact location is...

• Absolute Location
• Relative Location
• Prime Meridian
• Place

Florida has very hot and humid summers.

• Location
• Place
• Region
• Movement.

What are the two types of Location?

• Human and Physical Characteristics

• Longitude and Latitude

• Absolute and Relative

Relative location is:

• Latitude and Longitude

• Given by GPS

• a general location, not specific comparing other locations

• an exact place