Our Five Themes
This is NOT one of the 5 Themes of Geography?
1. Location 2. Region 3. HEI 4. Environment 5. Place
What is ENVIRONMENT?
For this category, an example will be given and you must name the theme. Example: the beach
What is place?
This is the study of earth and everything on it.
What is geography?
The term for half a sphere.
What is a hemisphere?
What is Absolute Location and Relative Location?
This is an example of which theme:
2801 SW Lucas Avenue
What is location?
the Southwest
What is region?
This is the exact measurement of a place.
What is absolute location?
How many hemispheres are there in the earth?
4
These are two characteristics of Place.
What are human characteristics and physical characteristics?
This theme applies to when one goes outside with a jacket on.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
a map that shows where crops are grown in the US.
What is HEI?
This is the set of conditions within which people live.
What is their environment?
These are the directions that latitude lines run and the directions that longitude lines run. (N, E, S, W)
What are latitude lines run East to West and longitude lines run North to South?
Name the three parts of HEI.
What is adapting, modifying, and depending on the environment?
This theme of geography that answers the question, "How do ideas progress around the globe"?
Movement
calling my grandma
What is movement of ideas?
This would be an area with unifying characteristics that separate it from other areas
What is region?
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
These are the three parts of movement.
What are movement of: goods, people, and ideas?
Name all 5 themes of Geography and give an example of each.
Location, Place, HEI, Region, Movement
The house is east of school and south of the grocery store
What is a relative location?
These are the three major types of maps.
What can be described as political, physical or thematic maps?
Provide the major lines of latitude and longitude.
What is the equator and prime meridians?
These are the three major categories for regions.
What are formal, functional, and vernacular/perceptional regions?