Five Themes of Geography

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Five Themes of Geography

• Location Place Interaction

Movement Region
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GEOGRAPHY/HISTORY

• Geography- the study of people, their
  environment, and resources
• History is an account of what has happened in the
  lives of different peoples.

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Location
• Place
• Interaction
• Movement
• Region

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Theme 1 LOCATION

• Exact Location
• Uses latitude and longitude to find the exact
  location of a place.
• RELATIVE LOCATION
• The location of a place in relation to some
  other places or objects.

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Examples of Relative Location

• Coxsackie is between Albany and Catskill.
• Albany is between Canada and New York
  City.

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Examples of Exact Location

• Paris, France is 48o51' North
  latitude and 2.20' East longitude
• - Florence, AL is 34o46' North latitude and
  87.40' West longitude

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Theme 2 PLACE

• PHYSICAL FEATURES such as climate soil, plant
  life, animal life, and bodies of water.
• HUMAN FEATURES such as kinds of houses people
  build, means of transportation, religion, and
  languages spoken.

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Theme 3 INTERACTION

• Interaction between people and their environment.
  People have had to adapt to their changing
  environment.
• For example The first Natives came to America
  across the land bridge hunting for food sources.

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Theme 4MOVEMENT

• Movement involves the movement of people from
  place to place,and the exchange of goods and
  ideas.

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• The first Natives came to America were searching
  for food.
• Later people from all over the world came to
  America to escape religious persecution, in
  search of expressing their political views, and
  to escape famines.

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Theme 5 REGION

• A Region is an area of the world that has similar
  or unifying characteristics.
• A region can be described as in a physical region
  or can be united by common cultural
  characteristics.

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• Chinatown in NYC
• Your Neighborhood
• The Rocky Mountains
• The Everglades