Transcript Five Themes of Geography

Five Themes of Geography
An introduction to thinking
geographically.
Five themes of geography
 Location
 Place
 Movement
 Interaction
 Region
Location
Where is it?
Location
A
specific position on the earth’s surface.
 Location can be measured in two ways
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
absolute location
relative location
Location
 Absolute


location – exact location
grid coordinates measured using lines of
latitude & longitude
on a local scale, a street address
Location
 Relative
location - location measured in
relation to other locations or use
landmarks to tell where it is
Place
What is it like there?
Place
Using physical and/or human
characteristics to distinguish places from
each other.
Place
 Physical
characteristics - the features of a
place that occur naturally, or the natural
landscape
Place
 Human
characteristics - the features of a
place that are there because of the
presence of human kind, the cultural
landscape
Movement
How do places
connect with
each other?
Movement
Movement is the exchange of people,
goods, ideas, or information between
places or even people.
Movement
Interaction
How do people
adapt to or
change their
environment?
Interaction
Region
What is it similar to?
Region
Using physical and/or human characteristics to link
different places together.
Region
 Physical
characteristics the features of a
place that occur
naturally, or the
natural landscape
 Human
characteristics the features of a
place that are
there because of
the presence of
human kind, the
cultural landscape
Regions
 Formal
 Functional
 Vernacular
Formal Region
 AKA
uniform or homogenous
 An area in which everyone shares in one
or more distinctive characteristics.
Functional Region
 AKA
nodal
 An area organized around a node or
focal point.
Vernacular Region
 AKA
perceptual
 An area that people believe to exist as
part of their cultural identity.
Where does this apply?
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