Geography: Five Themes

Geography is defined as

• the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it. 
•  the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. 
• features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. 
• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. 

The Five Themes of Geography are

• location, place, absolute, region, movement
• location, place, region, movement, human-environment interaction
• absolute, relative, place, region, environment
• location, characteristics, geography, movement, place

Location is defined as

• the movement from one place to another
• the absolute place where something exists and the relative area it exists in
• the languages spoken and the personality of the place
• how the people adapt to the environment

Absolute location can be the map coordinates, like 25⋅N 80⋅W, or address, like 8930 Eclipse, El Paso, TX 79904.

• True
• False

8930 Eclipse, El Paso, TX 79904: This is an example of Relative location.

• True
• False

Place is defined as

• the unique characteristics associated with a location that gives it a personality; this also includes languages spoken
• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. 
• the characteristics that are similar to other areas
• where something is located exactly

Region is defined as

• the larger area a specific place is part of that has similar characteristics to other places in the same area.
• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. 
• the unique characteristics associated only with that place
• the landmarks nearby.

Movement is defined as

• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. 
• how people, products, animals, plants, and ideas get from one place to another
• how one adapts to the environment
• how one modifies the environment

Human-Environment interaction is defined as

• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. 
• the specific characteristics that give a place its unique characteristics
• the way in which the environment controls people or people control or depend on the environment
• the address of the location

To modify the environment is to

• adapt to it by wearing sunscreen because you cannot change the sun
• change something in the environment to control the effects of the environment, like building a house to keep you warm in the winter.
• depending on the environment for water and air
• science dealing with description, distribution, and interaction of diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface.