5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

LOCATION

• Location is one of the themes of geography. Location tells you where it is.
• Longitude and latitude show you absolute locations.
• A relative location is like an absolute location just not as specific.
• The picture in the background is an example of longitude and latitude lines.

PLACE

• It tells you what the place is like.
• A football field and track is a human characteristic.
• It shows us that we could be at a school

MOVEMENT

• Movement is how people, goods, and ideas move around.
• Sometimes we use social media to promote businesses
• The dance team at our school are selling goods.

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

• What do the people do to the environment?
• We depend on some resources just like the car in the picture.
• We depend on automobiles to get us around.

REGION

• It tells what locations have in common
• It also tells what location have in common climate, reliogon,language,
• and location
• The picture of the CMS colts represents region because it represents our
• School and what region it is in.