5 Themes
This theme describes where something is.
Location
This element focuses on where places are located.
Spatial Thinking
North America contains three countries:
The United States, Canada, and Mexico
Why is it beneficial for a city to be located near water?
Trade
This theme describes a location's physical and human characteristics.
Place
This element focuses on the physical and human characteristics of places.
These THREE regions are also entire continents:
Hint: NOT Australia!
North America, South America, Europe
When geographers study the economic life of people from a specific place, which kind of system are they studying: Human, or physical?
Human
This theme describes how people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.
Movement
This element focuses how people change the environment and use resources to better society.
Environment and Society
Which continent is the country of Brazil in?
South America
What is absolute location?
The exact place where a site is located.
This theme describes how people interact with and change their environment.
Human-Environment Interaction
This element uses geography to understand the past, present, and future, and how geography helps us make decisions.
Uses of Geography
Qhat country used to be called the Soviet Union?
Russia
What are geographic patterns?
Similarities among different places
This theme groups places that share common characteristics with other places, such as climate, landforms, or culture.
Region
These two elements look at how people and their surroundings affect one another.
What is physical systems and human systems?
Which continent is at the very bottom of the Earth?
Antarctica
What is the difference between a region and a continent?
A continent is a large landmass on Earth's surface, and a region is a group of places connected by common characteristics.