5 Themes of Geography

• Location: “Where is it?” • Absolute location: is the exact place on

the earth where a geographic location is found.

• Hemisphere: half of the globe• Equator: line that divides the North

and South halves• Prime Meridian: is the imaginary

line dividing east and west• Relative Location: describes a place in

comparison to other places around it.

• Please turn in your Textbook to page 4

Place: “What is it like?”

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• Place is the physical features and cultural characteristics of a location. The features can include climate, landforms, or vegetation.

• There are two types of characteristics: human

and physical.

• Physical Characteristics are the natural features of a location, mountains, streams, deserts. Next, turn to page 2 and 3 and answer the following questions: What landforms do you recognize?

• Do you recognize any continents? List them.

• Movement involves the sharing of information, goods and ideas. • Migration is the process of people moving_ from one place to

another with the intent of staying at the destination permanently.

• In migration theory, Push factors are the social political, economical, and environmental forces that force people away from their previous location to search for new ones.

Place: “What is it like?”

• Human Characteristics are the features built by man, buildings, roads, and food.

• Bridges

Region: “How are places similar or different?”

• A region is an area of the earth’s surface with similar characteristics; these may include physical, political, economic or cultural characteristics. They are things that unify the area.

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Regions of the USA

Political Map

• Red = Republican

• Blue = Democrat

There are three types of regions: formal, functional and perceptual regions.

You do not need to memorize these regions

• Formal regions are those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries

• Functional regions are those defined by a function   If the function ceases to exists, the region no longer exists.

• Perceptual regions are those loosely defined by people's perception

Movement

• Movement: “How do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another?”

• Geographers analyze movement by looking at three types of distance: linear distance, time distance, and psychological distance.

Distance

• Linear Distance is how far across the earth a person, an idea, or a product travels.

• Time Distance is the amount of time it takes for a person, an idea, or a product to travel.

• Psychological Distance refers to the way that people view the distance.

• Human-Environment Interaction: “How do people relate to the physical world?”

• Human-Environment Interaction is the relationship between humans and their environment.

• People learn to use what their environment offers them and change that environment to meet their needs.

Movement / Migration Notes• Movement involves the sharing of information, goods and

ideas.

• Migration is the process of people moving_ from one place to another with the intent of staying at the destination permanently.

• In migration theory, Push factors are the social political, economical, and environmental forces that force people away from their previous location to search for new ones.

•  • In migration theory, Pull factors are the social political,

economic, and environmental attractions of new areas that draw people away from their previous location.

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