Geography
5 themes
1. Location
1. Location – How
you get there
a. Exact location –
Latitude &
Longitude,
Address
b. Relative
location (in
comparison to
somewhere else)
Location
What is the name
of the 0 degree
line of latitude?
What is the name
of the 0 degree
line of longitude?
What is the
correct to identify
relative location?
2. Place
What it looks like
once you get
there
a. Physical
characteristics
b. Cultural
characteristics
C. Man made
characteristics
Place
• Identify a physical feature in Lake
Oswego.
• Identify a physical feature in Oregon.
• Identify a physical feature in another
part of the world.
3. How People Relate to the
Environment
Human interaction with the
environment
Identify a way that humans interact with the
environment.
Compare how people interact with their
environment in an urban area with how
people interact with their environment in a
suburban area.
Determine how human interaction with the
environment can improve the environment.
How can it degrade it?
4. Movement of People, Goods,
Ideas
Movement
Identify an example of the movement
of people.
Identify an example of the movement
of goods.
Identify an example of the movement
of ideas.
5. Regions: Physical, Cultural
Similarities
Regions
Identify our region.
Identify physical features on the landscape that
are unique to our regions.
Identify another region in the United States.
Identify physical features on the landscape that
are unique to another region.
Demography – The study of the
characteristics of human populations