Transcript File - Mrs. Greenberg

The Five Themes of
Geography
Movement
The Mobility of
• People
• Goods
• Ideas
How Places are
linked to one
another and the
world
Movement:
• How can things move??
WORD OF
MOUTH
COMPUTERS
FORMS OF
TRANSPORTATION
SATELLITES
TELEPHONES
Movement:
• Through movement we connect all of
our world together.
• This is called globalization!
• When we are interdependent on each
other for our economy, culture,
politics, socialization, and technology.
Regions
What Places Have in Common
• Political Regions
• Landform Regions
• Agricultural Regions
• Cultural Regions
Region:
• A region describes:
• Areas that have something in
common
• Regions can be:
BIG
or
small
• There are two types of Regions
• Formal
• Functional
Region:
• A Formal Region is an. . .
• Area in which a certain characteristic
is found throughout the area
• Example: City, State, Country, Continent
Region:
• Functional Regions
• Have one central place and is
surrounded by the areas it affects
• Example: Hershey, PA
McDonald’s Activity
Human Environment Interaction
How People Interact With Their
Environment
People . . .
• Adapt to Their Environment
• Modify Their Environment
• Depend on Their Environment
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Location
• Where is It?
• Why is It There?
Two Types of
Location
•Absolute
•Relative
Absolute Location
•
•
•
•
A specific place on the Earth’s surface
Uses a grid system
Latitude and longitude
A global address
Relative Location
• Where a place is
in relation to
another place
• Uses directional
words to describe
– Cardinal and
intermediate
directions
Place
Answers the questionWhat is it like there?
Place
Human Characteristics
•
•
•
•
•
People
Culture
Language
Religion
Buildings and
Landmarks
• Cities
Place-What is it like
there?Physical Characteristics
• Land Features
• Mountains, plains,
and plateaus
• Climate
• Bodies of Water
MR. HELP
M- movement
R- region
H/E human environmental
interaction
L- location
P- place
Applying the Five Themes....
• Naples, Italy........
Latitude :
40 50' 00''
Longitude :
14 15' 00''
Location:
Location:
Location:
A
A
II
Q
Q
Movement:
Can you place the
geographic term
with
theyou
correct
Can
place the
geographic
term with
theme
of
the correct
geography!?!?
geographic theme!?!?
Five
Geographic
Geographic
Themes
of
Themes
Themes
Geography
Movement:
D
L
M
Equator
Building roads
Equator
Southwest
Building Asia
roads
Visiting
another
Southwest
Asia country
Visiting
another country
On an
island
On an island
The Western
US
Western US
Planting
A verycrops
hot climate
Latitude/longitude
Planting crops
longitude
coordinates
Place:
Place:
E
G
O
P
Region:
Region:
C
F
K
Human/Environmen
t Interaction:
Human/Environmen
Human/Environmen
tt Interaction:
Interaction:
B
B
H
H
J
J
N
N
Cutting down forests
Your neighborhood
Cutting down forests
Changing
your address
Your neighborhood
Handwritten
to a friend
Changingletters
your address
Written
letters
Building
new
houses
Building
new
Areas with little houses
rainfall
Areas with little rainfall
Swiss Swiss
chalets
& high
chalets
& high mts =
mountains
=
Switzerland
Switzerland
is south
Oklahoma
Texas Texas
is south
of of
Oklahoma