1. Geography themes and essential elements
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Geography themes and essential elements

2. Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Region

3. Location Description of where a point is Absolute location – specific
3051 Moore Street, Marlette, MI
Relative location – general description
Michigan

4. Place Not just where a point is Areas landscape
Features that make it different from other places
Land, climate, people

5. Human-Environment Interaction
How people interact with the environment
Land
Water
Climate
Plants
Animals

6. Climate effects how people live
Farming
Deforestation
Damming rivers
Climate effects how people live
Hot vs cold

7. Movement Why and how people move Work? Better area?
Study road and routes

8. Regions
Makes it easier to compare areas

9. The Six Essential Elements
The most important ideas in the study of geography
1. The world in special terms
2. Places and regions
3. Physical systems
4. Human systems
5. Environment and society
6. The uses of geography