The 5 Themes of Geography
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The 5 Themes of Geography
•Location•Place•Region
•Movement•Human-Environment Interaction
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Location• There are 2 ways to define location. • Absolute Location: a place’s exact position
on Earth using latitude and longitude. • These are imaginary lines drawn around
Earth to help geographers describe places. • Example: Philadelphia is located at about
39°N and 75° W on Earth.• Relative Location: the location of a place relative to another place.
• Example: Philadelphia is located on the East Coast of The U.S
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How can you find an exact location of a
place?
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Longitude and Latitude
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Longitude and Latitude• Imaginary lines that are drawn around Earth to
help geographers study location of places. • Latitude: Horizontal lines that run EAST to
WEST. Latitude is the distance north or south of the Equator, measured in units called degrees.
• Longitude: Vertical lines that run NORTH to SOUTH. Longitude is the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees.
• Philadelphia is located at about 39°N and 75° W on Earth.
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Equator and Prime Meridian
• The Equator marks 0 latitude. Think of it as Earth’s belt. It runs directly around Earth’s middle.
• The Prime Meridian marks 0 longitude. It runs from top to bottom of Earth.
• Each half of Earth is called a hemisphere.
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Place• Human and physical features at a
specific location. • Example (physical feature): Hawaii is
an archipelago, a series of islands. • Example (human feature): Hawaiian
people speak the Hawaiian language and have festivals called luaus where they practice the hula dance.
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Region• A region is an area with a unifying
human or physical feature such as population, history, climate, or landforms.
• Example: The Rocky Mountain Region in Colorado is a region of the United States.
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Movement• Movement explores how people, goods, and
ideas get from one place to another. Movement helps to explain cultural changes
• Example #1: Computers spread information
to mass amounts of people. • Example #2: Foreign countries shipping
goods to be sold globally. • Example #3: Action News on Channel 6
reports current events.
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Human-Environment Interaction• Considers how people affect their
environment, or their natural surroundings, and how their environment affects them.
• Example: Students take on a recycling project and clean up a park in their town.
• Example: The Nile River was the source of life for the Egyptian people.
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