1. The Five Themes of Geography

2. What is Geography?
Study of the earth and the way people live and work on it.
Means “earth’s description.”
Will help you understand the history of a civilization
Uses 5 themes to explain what a place is like and why it is like that.

3. The 5 Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Human/Environmental Interaction
Movement
Regions

4. Compass Rose

5. Theme 1: Location Where is It? Why is it There?
Two Types of Location:
Absolute Location
A specific place on the Earth’s surface
Uses a grid system
Latitude and longitude
A global address

6. Latitude
Horizontal lines measured in degrees north or south of the Equator (0 Latitude)
“Lat” rhymes with “Flat”

8. Longitude
distance measured in degrees east or west from an imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole

9. Relative Location
The position of a place in relation to another. (Fair Lawn is north of Philadelphia)
Northwest
Northeast
Southeast
Southwest
North
South
East
West
Fair Lawn

10. Practice: New Jersey
New Jersey is boarded by New York to the _______and Pennsylvania to the _________.
The Atlantic Ocean forms New Jersey's ____________coast.

11. Theme 2: Place Physical Characteristics
Land Features
Mountains, plains, and plateaus
Climate
Bodies of Water

12. New Jersey: Physical Characteristics

13. Theme 2: Place Human Characteristics
People
Culture
Language
Religion
Buildings and Landmarks
Cities

14. New Jersey: Human Characteristics

15. Theme 3: Human Environment Interaction
How People Interact With Their Environment
People . . .
Adapt to Their Environment
Modify Their Environment
Depend on Their Environment
Example: American Westward Expansion of the 1800s.

16. Adapt to Their Environment

17. Modify Their Environment

18. Modify Their Environment

19. Modify Their Environment
Panama Canal

20. Depend on Their Environment

21. Theme 4: Movement How places are linked to one another and the world.
The Mobility of:
People
Goods
Ideas
Examples:
Religion
Languages
Cultures

22. Theme 5: Regions What places have in common:
Political Regions (United States, New Jersey)
Landform Regions (rivers, mountains)
Agricultural Regions (Farmland, wheat, corn)
Cultural Regions (language, arts)