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Five Themes of Geography
• Location• Region• Human
Environment Interaction
• Place• Movement
Location
Everyone and everything occupies a place on earth.
• Relative – Not exact - described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another. ie. Take exit 12 off highway 103, turn right and NGRHS is twenty minutes off the highway.
• Absolute – Exact - a latitude and longitude or a street address. ie. 44 School Street or 44º41’12”N, 66º48’57”W
Region
• distinctive part of the Earth defined according to some particular criterion or set of criteria
• allows similarities or differences and patterns on the planet’s surface to be identified
• Can be based on similarities within a physical landscape, resource base or political
• ie. regions of seismic activity, ethnic regions within a city, Corn Belt of Canada, The Prairies, rainforests
Human Environment Interaction
• We live in and form part of the earth’s environment. We change it for our needs.
• We depend on, adapt to and modify the environment
• ie: planting a garden, mining, ski resort, wear warm clothes
Place
• defined or distinguished by physical and human characteristics
• gives character and dimension to place
• ie. Brewery market--smell of bread baking, bustling people
Movement
• what connects all types of communication and global interdependence
• Goods, people, ideas, architecture, fashion, foods all move.
• ie. satellite dish, airplanes, migration, Internet