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Use the 5 Themes PP to complete the 5 Themes section of your skeletal notes for Unit 1. This portion starts about half way down on page 1 of your notes packet.
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5 Themes of Geography
Location
Absolute LocationExact spot on the earths surface
where something is
Example: Street address, or Latitude and Longitude
Relative LocationWhere something is in relation to
other things
Example: Utah is north of Arizona. My house is west of the big field.
Place
• Physical Characteristics
Physical features that make a place unique. It is how we describe the physical surroundings
• Human Characteristics
How peoples activities have changed the way a place looks
Physical Characteristics
Human Characteristics
Movement
• People
People use various forms of transportation.
People move from city to city, state to state, etc.
• Ideas, Goods, Information, services
Ideas such as religions, political thought, and inventions move.
Goods such as food and clothing move
Information such as knowledge and news moves
Services such as financial services move.
Movement Examples
Human Environment Interaction
• The ways that humans adapt to and change their surroundings for their benefit.
Examples: The clothes people wear, the food they eat, the buildings they build, recreation spots, canals and dams etc.
RegionAn area with common characteristics and its surrounding
area
• Formal Region
• A region that has a formal boundry
• Examples include states, cities, stores, neighborhoods,
• Functional Region
• A region that does not have formal boundaries
• Examples include culture regions, climate regions, physical feature regions
5 Themes Pictures
Art Activity-5 Themes• Make a booklet (I will demonstrate).• On the front, write a title and your name. Use color.• Make a page for each theme of geography: - Title each page with the name of a theme - Draw a picture(s) or a cartoon that represents
the theme. Use you imagination and draw
pictures that show you understand the theme. The pictures need to be in color. -Most themes will require two pictures (Ex.
Location-picture of absolute and a picture for relative. ONLY INTERACTION WILL HAVE 1 PICTURE)
- Write a 5 word (no more or less) definition that explains the theme.