5 Themes of Geography
What is one theme of geography?
location, place, human-environment, interaction, movement, or region
"a general description of a location... the sites location is expressed in general terms"
what is relative location
The branches of geography
what is physical and human geography
Name one of the Geography Term part 1 without looking
Tundra, plain, lake, hill, dune, cave, bay, swamp, etc. Look up at the poster to check if you were able to guess one of them.
Which is one is not one of the five themes of geography? Movement, sound, place.
sound
"a specific description of location"
what is general location
"The study of World's human geographic features"
What is Human Geography
Define Glacier
a slow moving big mass of ice on land
"Which of the five themes deals with the relationships between people and their surroundings?"
Human-Environment Interaction
"the area's landscape, the features that define the area and make it different from other places"
What is Place
"The study of the World's physical geographic features"
What is Physical Geography
Define Gulf
A large inlet from the ocean that goes into the land
What are all the themes of geography?
location, place, human-environment, interaction, movement, and region
"areas that share common characteristics"
what is region
What do human geographers study?
The World's people, communities, and landscapes. Also people, past, and present
Define a dune
"A mound or ridge of sand formed by wind, on the sea coast or in deserts"
Name one reason why having the 5 themes of geography helps us
"These geography themes can be applied to nearly everything that geographers study" You can have a different or similar answer
Guess what both themes are: "looks at how and why people and things move", "how they affect each other"
what is movement and human-environment interaction
What do Physical Geographers study?
The study of the World's physical geographic features, its land forms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants
Define Delta
Wetlands that form as rivers, mainly looking like a triangle.