1. The Five Themes of Geography

2. Location Where is it? Absolute location 2. Relative location
Exact location
Latitude and longitude
2. Relative location
In reference to somewhere else
Conversational answer

3. Place Continually changes Dramatic/Quick Change Gradual/Slow Change
Tornado, hurricane, fire
Gradual/Slow Change
Global warming

4. Place Physical characteristics
Landforms, bodies of water, climate, vegetation, animals

5. Place 2. Human/Cultural Characteristics
Defined by culture of the place
Language, religion, ethnic background, type of clothing

6. Human Environmental Interaction
How do people affect the environment?
How does the environment affect people?
People depend on, adapt to, and modify (change) their environment.

7. Human Environmental Interaction
Positive changes to environment
Building dams, preserving natural habitats, recycling
Negative changes to environment
Littering, dumping hazardous waste into oceans, cutting trees and not replanting

8. Human Environmental Interaction
How can humans help the environment?
How can the environment help humans?
How has technology affected HEI?

9. Movement People Goods Ideas Car, train, plane, bus Truck, boat
Computer, TV, phone

10. Movement Barriers to movement Natural Barriers Human Barriers
Mountains, oceans
Human Barriers
--Type of government
Communist, dictatorships

11. Movement Why do people migrate?
Migrate: move from one area to settle in another
Push and Pull factors

12. Movement Push factors Pull factors
Poverty, overcrowding, lack of jobs, war
Pull factors
Better jobs, freedom, safety, better education

13. Region Area with similar cultural or physical characteristics
More than one place
Eastern Europe, North Africa, Southeastern United States, Spanish- speaking Countries, Muslim World, Mountain Region