The Five Themes of Geography
Cocoran's Five Themes of Geography
Historical Sources
100

This theme describes how people, goods, and ideas get around from place to place

What is movement?

100

These are some methods of movement in Corcoran

What are buses, walking, speaking, trains, cars, etc?

100

This is a source that experienced the events being studied

What is a primary source?

200

These are the three major regions of geography

What are formal, functional, and perceptual regions?

200

These are the regions of Corcoran

Why is Corcoran part of Kings County? Why is it part of the San Joaquin Valley? 

200

This is a source that tells you about the historical source being studied 

What is a secondary source?

300

This theme is known as the adaptations, modifications, and dependencies people have with their environment

What is human-environment interaction? 

300

These are various ways humans adapt, modify, and depend on Corcoran

How do people of Corcoran change their clothes, turn on ACs/heaters, and grow crops?

300

This is a strong one-sided opinion usually made with emotions rather than fact

What is bias?

400

These are the two types of location

What is absolute and relative location?

400

This is Corcoran's absolute and relative location

What is "Corcoran is across from McDonald's, North of Bakersfield, and 30 minutes South of Hanford, etc."?

400

These types of sources include interviews, artifacts, and documents

What are primary sources?

500

These are the characteristics studied of any place 

What are physical and human characteristics?

500

What are Corcoran's physical and human characteristics? 

What is Corcoran's Tulare Lake, cats, dogs, trees, etc? What are Corcoran's cultures, buildings, and languages?

500

These types of sources include documentaries, notebooks, and historians

What are secondary sources?

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