5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

LOCATION (LITTLE)

• There are 2 types of location: relative and absolute and relative
• Relative location is using a nearby place to locate another place
• Sometimes we use cardinal points to locate that place.
• Absolute is using longitude and latitude to locate the exact point
• The ceiling tiles represent longitude and latitude lines.

PLACE (PIGS)

• Physical characteristics are the things that are natural to the environment
• In the picture, the tree is a physical characteristic of the field
• Human characteristics are things that are made from the ideas of humans
• In the picture, the track is a human characteristic of the field.

MOVEMENT (MAKE)

• There are 3 kinds of movement: people, ideas & goods
• The lunch line represents the movement of people because people move through it
• The microphone represents the movement of ideas because the idea of
• the microphone spread from country to country.
• Snacks represent movement of goods because goods were shipped from other countries

HUMAN/ENVIROMENT INTERACTION (HENRY)

• Is how humans interact with the enviroment
• We modified the the earth by pouring concrete on the ground to make the bus circle
• We depended on the environment because we needed the land to build the bus circle
• We adapted to the environment because we built the bus circle so the buses could pass through

REGION (RUN)

• Region is a place that shares 1 or more common characteristic
• An example of a region could be the library because has lots of
• books and tables, and it shares one or more commojn characteristic

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