The Five Themes of Geography

geographyThe study of Earth

1-What two questions do geographers ask when studying the Earth?

1-Where are things on Earth located?

2-Why are those things there?

2-List the Five Themes of Geography1. Location

2. Regions

3. Place

4. Movement

5. Human-Environment Interaction

3-Why do Geographers Study Location?

To find out where a place is located

Geographers use both cardinal and

intermediate directions to describe location.

cardinal directionsnorth

south

east

west

intermediate directions

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northeast

northwest

southeast

southwest

4-What are the two special measurements of Earth used to describe location?1. Latitude

2. Longitude

5-What is the name of the line of latitude that is located 0 degrees of latitude?

The Equator

6-What is the name of the line of longitude that marks 0 degrees of longitude?

The Prime Meridian

7-Which way of describing location is being used when a geographer explains that a river is located 250 miles north of San Antonio? Relative Location

latitudeThe distance north or south of Earth's equator, measured in units called degrees

parallelA line of latitude

longitudeThe distance east or west of the Prime Meridian [0 longitude, Greenwich, England], measured in units called degrees

meridianA line of longitude

hemisphere

Halves of the Earth:

northern/southern

or

eastern/western

8-Why is the study of the following 4 themes important to geographers? Regions Place Movement Human-Environment Interaction

Regions

Geographers use Regions to group places that have something in common.

A region has a unifying human or physical features such as: population history climate landforms

PLACE

Geographers use Place to describe thefeatures of a location that make it unique.

Place includes the human and physical features of a specific location.

MOVEMENT Geographers use Movement to explain

how people, goods and ideas move from one place to another.

Human-Environment Interaction

Geographers use Human-Environment Interaction to learn how people affect their environment and how their environment affects them.