1. THE 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

3. THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

4. LOCATION Where is it? Absolute Location Relative Location
Describes a place’s exact position on the Earth’s surface.
A latitude and longitude (global location) or a street address (local location).
Paris France is 48o North Latitude and 2o East Longitude.
The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Relative Location
Expresses where a place is in relation to another place.
Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance. From one place to another.
Go 1 mile west on main street and turn left for 1 block.
You are Here

5. RELATIVE
ABSOLUTE
From UMSL, drive north on South Florissant Road through Ferguson. Continue north past I At the second stop light, you should see a log cabin and tennis court and large water tank on the left side of the road. Continue to the next street, St. Catherine. You will see a Sinclair Oil gas station on the left. Immediately across the street is a small strip shopping center. The center store is Old Town Donuts. Make a right turn into the parking lot and go in.
Where is 38º N and 95ºW?

6. PLACE What is the place like? Human Characteristics
What are the main languages, customs, and beliefs.
How many people live, work, and visit a place.
Physical Characteristics
Landforms (mountains, rivers, etc.), climate, vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.

7. HUMAN PLACE PHYSICAL PLACE
PRODUCED BY HUMANS
Distinctive type of boat associated with south Pacific islands
CREATED MAINLY BY NATURE
Arid area with exotic stream at the foot of a great escarpment or mountain range.

8. HUMAN PLACE PHYSICAL PLACE
CREATED BY NATURE
Volcanic mountains which influence soil fertility and present hazardous living conditions
PRODUCED BY HUMANS
Distinctive type of dress, musical instrument & music

9. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
How are people & the environment connected?
Describes the relationship between
people and their environment.
We depend on it.
People depend on the Tennessee River for water and transportation.
We modify it.
People modify our environment by
heating and cooling buildings for comfort.
We adapt to it. We adapt to the environment by wearing
clothing suitable for summer (shorts) and
winter (coats).

10. HUMANS ADAPT - HUMANS CHANGE
Humans had to adapt their construction methods to the arctic environment when they built the Alaska pipeline.
Faster, easier transportation was important enough for them to construct tunnels through the mountains.

11. Humans change things
The Netherlands versus the Sea. Humans have reclaimed land from the sea at least for now

12. REGIONS What are the common characteristics of places?
Regions are areas that share common characteristics can be related to things such as climate, religion, language, etc…
Formal Regions
Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States, Countries, Cities)
Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain region, Chinatown).
Functional Regions
Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell phone coverage area).

13. Formal Regions – possesses a single common feature or a limited combination of features throughout the area
Political units such as states and counties
Functional Regions – An operational unit based on organization, structure, and interactions
The hinterland of a major city

14. FORMAL REGION
The different colors stand for territory added to Russia during different periods of time. The common feature for each color is the time period in which it was added to Russia.

15. FUNCTIONAL REGION
Coal mining is at the heart of the economy of all these counties. Many factors are related to the coal mining industry. The deposits influence movement and settlement patterns.

16. vernacular region is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity. Such regions are "intellectual inventions" and a form of shorthand to identify things, people, and places.

17. Different sets of criteria produce different versions of a region
Common core area
All three are anchored around a core area, but the peripheral areas of the regions differ markedly.

19. MOVEMENT How is it connected? Human Movement Information Movement
Movement explains how and why
Movement focuses on
transportation & communication
Human Movement
Trucks, Trains, Planes
Information Movement
Phones, computer ( ), mail
Idea Movement
How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines

20. MATERIAL NONMATERIAL
Material objects (cargo & passengers) are transferred from one place to another by an airplane.
Nonmaterial entity (data, pictures, & conversations) move invisibly from one place to many others.

21. Remembering the 5 themes
If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
M – Movement
R – Regions
HE – Human Environment interaction
L – Location
P - Place