The 5 Themes
The position on Earth’s surface.
Location
Exactly where you are on the globe.
Absolute location
The only continent that is made up of one country.
Australia
The continent we call home.
North America
The ocean that lies between the Americas and Europe & Africa.
Atlantic
Locations having distinctive features.
Place
Where you are in relation to another place.
Relative location
The continent North of Africa.
Europe
The largest continent.
Asia
The ocean that lies between the Americas and Asia.
Pacific
A unit on the earth’s surface that has unifying characteristics, places with common characteristics.
Region
Lines on a map or globe that run east to west.
Latitude
The study of the land, and how humans interact with it.
Geography
The frozen Continent.
Antarctica
The ocean that lies south of Asia and east of Africa.
Indian
The way people, products, and information move from one place to another.
Movement
Lines on a map or globe that run north to south.
Longitude
Boat, train, car, phones, computers, mail, tv, radio, etc.
Ways Movement happens.
The second largest continent.
Africa
The ocean that lies across the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
Southern
The relationship between people and their environment.
Human/Environment Interactions
Landforms, climate, terrain are examples of this.
Physical characteristics
Language, economics, government, how people live are examples of this.
Human characteristics
The continent that lies west of Africa.
South America
The ocean that lies at the top of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Arctic