What are the Five Themes Geographers use the

What are the Five Themes? Geographers use the five themes to organize information. The five themes are used to organize a lot of information while geographers study the world. ¡ Geographers are guided by two questions, “Where are things located? ” and “Why are they there? ” ¡

CUL 8 R URGR 8 BNKTLR URAQT ONOIML 8 JTSKR NE 14 XIS ICUR 2 YS RESQME

ICUR 2 YS I see you are too wise. RESQME Rescue me. CUL 8 R See you later. URAQT You are a cutie. BNKTLR Bank teller JTSKR Jet skier ONOIML 8 Oh no I’m late NE 14 XIS Anyone for tennis? URGR 8 You are great.

Five Themes License Plate My helper. MHe. LPR M=Movement He=Human Environment Interaction L=Location P=Place R=Region

Movement Helps geographers understand connections and relationships among places. ¡ Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another. ¡ Examples- cultural foods, jewelry, clothes, music, etc. ¡

Human Environment Interaction ¡ ¡ ¡ Focuses on how people affect their physical surroundings. Also is used to understand the consequences of their decisions. Examples- people clear cutting the rain forest, the consequence- less trees to give off oxygen.

Location Is like the address of a place, absolute location is the like the geographic address. It is located in one spot, one location. ¡ Relative location explains where a place is by describing places near it. ¡ Example- I live in Atlanta, GA, it’s about 110 miles south of Chattanooga. ¡

Place This is used to describe a location’s human and physical features. ¡ Examples- mall-people go here to shop; a church-people go here to worship; a school-people go there to learn; the jungle-very hot and moist; the desert-very dry and little vegetation. ¡

Region Used for making comparisons. Each region has something that bonds it together, like the same language, religion, history, climate, geography, etc. ¡ Used for grouping and making observations about differences and similarities. ¡