Geography 12 The Five Themes of Geography Location

Geography 12

The Five Themes of Geography • Location • Nature of Place • Human and Environmental Interaction • Regions • Movement

Location • Location of a place can be expressed in terms of its proximity or distance from another place. • Absolute location pinpoints a place on the surface of the Earth. • It is based on a grid system such as latitude and longitude. • “Where is it? ”

Examples of Location: • Latitude and Longitude • UTM Grid References • Topographic features

Nature of Place • The physical, natural, and human characteristics that describe a place and distinguish it from other places. • “What is it like when you get there? ”

Examples of Place: • • • Topography Climate Cultural features Economics …

Human and Environmental Interaction • The nature of the interactions between physical, natural, and human environments, and the consequences of those interactions for people and places. • “What is happening there? ”

Examples of Relationships Between Human and Environment: • How one aspect depends on another (abiotic and biotic) • How one aspect adapts to another apsect (abiotic and biotic) • How one element can modivy the environment for all the other aspects (biotic and abiotic)

Regions • Areas that have similar characteristics, according to a set of chosen criteria. • Regions are the basic units of geographic study • “What is it similar to? ”

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Example of Regions: • Common or distinctive characteristics (human, natural, abiotic or biotic) – Ethnic Regions – Physiographic Regions – Climate Regions – Language Regions –…

Movement • The interactions, interrelationships, and interdependencies of people and places across the face of the Earth. • Movement can involve ideas, information, communications of many kinds, as well as the physical movement of people and goods. • “What is going where and why? ”

Examples of Movement: • Identify patterns of movement with living populations • Identify patterns with physical systems of the earth

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