Five Themes
of Geography
Five Themes of Geography
Remember: MR LIP !
Movement
Region
Location
Interaction between Man and the Env
Place
Location
"Where are we?" is the question that
location answers.
Two types of location:
Absolute Exact location. Uses latitude
and longitude
Relative Where a place is in relation
to another place
Absolute Location or
Relative Location?
Paris, France is 48 degrees North latitude
and 2 degrees East longitude. absolute
Swansboro, NC is east of Raleigh, NC.
relative
Latitude: Lines run east to west
Main line of latitude is the
Equator
Longitude: Lines run north to
south
Main line of longitude is the
Prime Meridian
How can you describe the relative
location of Swansboro Middle?
What resource would you need to
find out the absolute location of
London, England?
An atlas
Place
What kind of place is it? What do you
think of when you imagine
China? Japan? Russia? Saudi Arabia?
Place
Physical characteristics:
*Describes the environment
CLAP: Climate, Landforms, Animals, Plants
Cultural/Human characteristics:
* Describes the people
Examples: language, religion, customs
Physical or Cultural/Human
Characteristics?
Physical (animals)
Cultural/Human
(buildings made
by people)
Physical or Cultural/Human
Characteristics?
Cultural/Human
(clothing)
Physical
(landforms)
Movement
People interact with each other
through movement.
Movement
What can be moved from one place to
another?
-People: migration due to: travel, jobs
freedom, weather (hurricanes),
-Goods and ideas: trade (imports and
exports), cultural diffusion
Interactions
How do humans and the environment
affect each other?
We change the environment and then
sometimes Mother Nature changes it
back.
For example, tornados in the mid-West,
Hurricane Katrina, and earthquakes and
mudslides in California.
Interactions
Interactions between humans
and the environment
Adapt: To change yourself to
fit your environment
Modify: To change the
environment to fit you
Adaptations or modifications??
Building roads= modification
Wearing gloves and coats in
Winter= adaptation
Cutting down trees= modification
Learning to like fish if you live by
the sea= adaptation
Region
A region is an area with unique
characteristics
*Similar physical characteristics or similar
cultural characteristics
Examples: oil producing region, Spanish
speaking region, Buddhist region