5 Themes of GeographyLocation

MovementPlace

Human/Environment InteractionRegion

Polar Climate

Corn fields

Mountainous

400N,760W

Location – Where is it?

. Selinsgrove

Absolute location – the exact location on Earth (latitude and longitude)

380 N, 1000W 390 N, 750W400N, 760W

Relative location – where something is located based on its environment

(It uses something nearby to describe the location.)

Pennsylvania is south of New York.

Selinsgrove is 50 miles north of Harrisburg.

Pittsburgh is southwest of Selinsgrove.

Relative Location – can use a nearby landmark• There is a Weis Market store next to the mall in Selinsgrove.

Walmart is across the highway from the mall.

The GNC store isbeside Bonton’s mainentrance at the mall.

Movement – How do people, goods and ideas move from one location to another?

• Everything moves in some way.• Goods or “stuff” • move with trade and shipping

• Stores sell goods made in other places

People or “us” – migrate and move with transportationPeople move for jobs….to get a better life

Ideas or “what we think” – information passed along by people, stories, the internet, books, newspaper and television

Place – What is it like?

• Physical Place – Includes things about the physical features• Examples: climate, weather, landforms, vegetation, animal

habitats• What does the land look like?

Human Place – Includes features that are products of human interactionExamples: anything to do with culture such as religion, government, economy, lifestyles, populationWhat is life like?

Human-Environment Interaction – How do people relate to the physical world?

• This is what the environment offers to people.• Example: Resources• How can they change it to meet their needs?• Irrigation, dams, pollution, growing crops, mining,

recycle, plant trees…..

Regions – How is a place similar or different?• These are areas that have something in common.• A place, location or idea is unique and has something to

unify it.• Continents – Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica,

North America, South America, Europe

• Climate – polar, tropical, moderate

• Physical – desert, mountains, coal region

• Religion – Christianity, Islamic, Jewish