Exploring the 5 Themes of Geography

What is the first theme of geography?

• Place

• Movement

• Location

• Regions

What does the theme of Location tell you?

• What locations have in common

• How people and ideas get around

• Where it is

• What it is like when you get there

What is the second theme of geography?

• Place

• Regions

• Location

• Movement

What question does the theme of Place answer?

• How do people and ideas get around?

• Where is it?

• What is it like when you get there?

• What do locations have in common?

What is the third theme of geography?

• Regions

• Place

• Movement

• Location

What does the theme of Movement describe?

• What it is like when you get there

• Where it is

• How people and ideas get around

• What locations have in common

What is the fourth theme of geography?

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Movement

• Place

What does Human-Environment Interaction explore?

• The relationship between people and their environment

• What it is like when you get there

• Where it is

• How people and ideas get around

What is the fifth theme of geography?

• Movement

• Place

• Regions

• Location

What do the theme of Regions focus on?

• What it is like when you get there

• How people and ideas get around

• Where it is

• What locations have in common