The 5 Themes of
Geography
Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions
Location
• Where is it?
• Why is it there?
Two Types of Location
• Absolute
• Relative
Absolute Location
• A specific place on the Earth’s surface
• Uses a grid system– latitude &
longitude
• A global address
Kansas: Absolute Location
• Kansas
38° N
96° W
• Lenexa
38°, 57’ N
94°, 44’ W
Relative Location
• Where a place is in relation to another
place
• Uses directional words to describe
– Cardinal and intermediate directions
– Landmarks, time, or distance
Rhode Island: Relative Location
• Rhode Island is bordered by Massachusetts
to the north and Connecticut to the south
• Rhode Island is on the east coast
• Rhode Island is the Northeast
Place-The personality
• What is it like there?
• What kind of place is it?
• We look at the physical
and human characteristics
to identify a place.
Physical Characteristics- are
natural
• Land features
• Mountains,
plains, and
plateaus
• Climate
• Bodies of water
• Animals
• Plant life
Physical Features
Human Characteristics
• People
• Culture
• Language
• Religion
• Buildings and landmarks
• Cities
• Customs and beliefs
• How many people live, work, and visit
a place.
Human Characteristics
Human-Environment Interaction
• How people interact with their environment
• People . . .
– Adapt to their environment
– Modify their environment
– Depend on their environment
Human-Environment Interaction
Human Environment Interaction
Humans adapt to
the environment.
Human Environment Interaction
• People adapt to their environment by wearing clothing that is
suitable for the weather.
Human Environment Interaction
People modify the environment by heating and
cooling buildings for comfort.
Human Environment Interaction
People depend on the Amazon River for water, food
and transportation.
Movement
• The mobility of
– People
– Goods
– Ideas
• How places are linked to one another
and the rest of the world.
Movement
Regions
• What places have in
common.
– Political regions (countries,
states, counties, cities)
– Landform regions (Rocky
Mountains, Death Valley)
– Agricultural regions
(Cornbelt, Bread basket)
– Cultural regions
(Chinatown, Little Italy)
Regions
If you can’t remember the
5 themes of Geography,
just ask Mr. Help!
• M– Movement
• R– Regions
• HE– Human-Environment Interaction
• L– Location
• P– Place
Checking What You Know!
For each of the following questions,
identify which of the five themes of
geography is being expressed.
1. Moving people, goods, and
ideas
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Location
Place
Human-environment interaction
Movement
region
2. Share a common characteristic
or set of characteristics
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3. Depend, adapt, and modify
the environment
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4. What it’s like . . .
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5. clothing, shelter, agriculture,
population
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6. Latitude and longitude
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7. buildings, irrigation, shopping,
farming, language
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8. Raising crops
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9. Rivers flowing
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10. Transportation and
communication
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11. continents, hemispheres, oceans
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12. Overland Park is located in
east-central Kansas
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13. 8300 Travis Lane
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14. climate, landforms, bodies of
water, animal life, plant life
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Human-environment interaction
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15. Maps
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Human-environment interaction
Movement
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16. YouTube, cell phone, nightly
news, KC Star
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Human-environment interaction
Movement
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17. dams, windmills, oil drilling
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18. Lenexa, Johnson County,
metropolitan, Kansas, midwest
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19. Carbon dioxide emissions,
roads, traffic signals
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Human-environment interaction
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20. Northeast, the South, the
Midwest
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