Foundations of Geography- 5 Themes Geographic Inquiry Review

This theme of geography describes an area that shares common characteristics

• Place

• Location

• Region

• Movement

This theme of geography tells you where something is located. This can either be in the form of absolute or relative.

• Human Environment Interaction

• Location

• Movement

• Place

This theme of geography describes how people, animals, products, vehicles, ideas, etc. get around.

• Movement

• Human Environment Interaction

• Place

This theme of geography tells what makes a location special, unique, or different.

• Human Environment Interaction

• Place

• Region

• Location

This theme of geography identifies what people do to the environment and/or it describes what does the environment do to the people.

• Region

• Place

• Human Environment Interaction

Recently along Kent Trails from 84th street to 52nd street, people have been noticing weird deer. They have been acting strange like not being afraid of people, staggering around, and meowing like cats. The first step of geographic inquiry would be...

• Organizing Geographic Information- Taking the maps, images, and research and putting it together into graphs and spreadsheets

• Asking Geographic Question- Identifying where the deer are located, and figuring what makes them sick.

• Analyzing Geographic Data- taking all of the maps and graphs about the deer and making connections about why they are acting weird.

• Answering Geographic Questions- Taking all of the information and making a law stating it is illegal to dump the grease from the L.C Crazy Bread along the trail. It's making the deer sick.

After asking geographic questions, the next step to figure out what is making the deer act strangely is...

• Organizing Geographic Information- Taking the maps, images, and research and putting it together into graphs and spreadsheets

• Acquiring Geographic Information- Use geographic tools like water testing, trail cam photos, and soil testing.

• Answering Geographic Questions- Taking all of the information and making a law stating it is illegal to dump the grease from the L.C Crazy Bread along the trail. It's making the deer sick.

After asking geographic questions about the deer, acquiring geographic information, the next step is to...

• Organizing Geographic Information- Taking the maps, images, and research and putting it together into graphs and spreadsheets

• Answering Geographic Questions- Taking all of the information and making a law stating it is illegal to dump the grease from the L.C Crazy Bread along the trail. It's making the deer sick.

Now that the information about the deer is gathered and organized, the next step is to..

• Answering Geographic Questions- Taking all of the information and making a law stating it is illegal to dump the grease from the L.C Crazy Bread along the trail. It's making the deer sick.

• Analyze the data- Take the maps, research, photos, and connect them with area water sources, businesses that might impact the land, and other things in the air that might make the deer sick.

Finally the last step is to answer the geographic questions. This step is necessary to do what two things?

• Help get the deer healthy and prevent the problem from happening again.

• Identify what the problem is and gather information about the deer problem.

• Allow the deer to die, but make sure that other animals don't get sick.