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5 THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY
COHORT: ____________________________
HOMEROOM: ____________________________
Miranda, Joshua M.
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
Table of Contents
DIRECTIONS:: Choose a country anywhere in the world; study and research a little bit about
that country. For each of the five themes of geography, explain what it means in the first box and
list three facts about the country you chose in the second box.
1.
2.
Location
What does it mean?
3.
1.
Place 2.
What does it mean?
3.
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
1.
Human Environment 2.
Interaction
What does it mean?
3.
1.
2.
Movement
What does it mean?
3.
1.
2.
Regions
What does it mean?
3.
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
Directions:
1. Look at a map or a globe and find the latitude and longitude of where you live.
2. Make a chart by drawing two lines across the sheet of paper to make a large cross. Use
rulers to help you. Mark the ends N, S, E, and W to indicate directions. The
horizontal line represents your latitude. Write the number of the latitude next to the
line. The vertical line represents your longitude. Write the longitude number next to it.
3. Make a dot where the two lines meet and write the name of your city.
4. Use the map and follow your line of latitude east and west to find other places that lie
on that latitude. Write their names on your chart in the order that they occur.
5. Then follow your line of longitude north and south, and write down names of places that
you find.
7. Now you know a few places that are exactly north, south, east, and west from where you
live.
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
Date:__________________
Unit:__________________
__________ THEMES OF ________
GEOGRAPHY IS...
GEOGRAPHY
What iS an Example Of IS THE STUDY OF THE _____________ &
Region in NC?
EVERYTHING IN OR ON IT
GEOGRAPHER
A GEOGRAPHER IS THE ONE DOING THE
_____________
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
MOVEMENT IS...
MOVEMENT BUZZWORDS People, _________, &
ideas.
PEOPLE How & why people _________l from
place to place.
Ex. Career, Family, Escape War, or Religious
Persecution
GOODS How _________ are moved from
What are the two types of
place to place.
location?
Ex. Truck delivering oranges from
Florida to NY.
IDEAS How ideas move around the
world.
_____________ allows us to see
ideas move.
What are the two ways you Ex, fashion, music, philosophies,
can use place to describe a
language.
location?
REGION IS
REGION BUZZWORDS Unifying (_________), land, &
culture
UNIFYING A region is a place on earths surface that
has a _____________ characteristic.
Ex. Climate or_____________(farming, banking)
LAND Different _____________regions
Deserts, mountains, grasslands, and rainforests.
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
HEI IS...
HEI BUZZWORDS _____________, Modify, &
_____________
Positive & Negative
Geographers study the way humans interact
_____________ and _____________ with their
environment and the lasting effects.
Positive: Planting trees, _____________
Negative: _____________, landfills
Adapt
[_______________ _________________ ___
_____________]
How humans get use to their
environment because they ________
change it.
o Carry an umbrella when its
raining
o Create a shelter for the climate
Modify [________________]
How humans change their environment
to meet their needs.
o Build highways, railroads,
_____________ system
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
Depend [_________________]
How humans need their environment to
_____________.
o Farmers
grow food
to eat and
sell.
LOCATION IS
LOCATION BUZZWORDS _____________. & Relative
Absolute Location
Absolute Location is defined by its latitude
and longitude lines or a Street _____________.
This is an _____________ location.
Latitude and longitude of London,
England is 51.5072 N; 0.1275 W
Address of RRMS is 7260 Highland
Creek Parkway
Relative Location
Relative location is defined by what a place is
surrounded by using _____________., distance
and landmarks.
Ex: The US Capitol is located about 38
miles ____________ of Baltimore.
Ridge Road Middle is
_____________. Highland Creek
Elementary
Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
PLACE IS...
PLACE BUZZWORDS Physical & _____________.
HOW DO GEOGRAPHERS USE PLACE?
o Geographers study this theme by looking at
the _____________. that tell each location
apart
o This is how they _____________. a location
PHYSICAL FEATURES
o _____________. of the place
Mountains, _____________. , Oceans,
Deserts, Climate
HUMAN FEATURES
o _____________. , Landmarks, and People
Buildings, _____________. , Language,
Food
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How will the 5 themes of
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geography help you understand
a place better? ____________________________________________________
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Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________