THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

GUIDED NOTES

Mr. Hardy’s 8^th Grade Social Studies Class

THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

1. LOCATION
2. PLACE
3. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
4. MOVEMENT
5. REGION

LOCATION

Where ________________

• ____________________ Location
  • A latitude and longitude (global location) or a street address (local location). Examples

Charlotte is about 35 Degrees N _______________and 80 Degrees W_________.

RMS is located at 4400 Water Oak Road.

• ___________________ Location
  • Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance, from one place to another.

Example

Washington D.C. is located on the east coast of the US near the states of Virginia and Maryland.

PLACE

What__________________________________, what kind of place is it? Describes place in terms of both physical and human characteristics.

• Human Characteristics
  • What are the main languages, customs, and beliefs?
  • How many people live, work, and visit a place?
• Physical Characteristics
  • _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

• How humans and the environment have affected each other.
  • We depend on our environment for ________________________.
    • For example, we depend on rivers for water and transportation.
  • We ___________________ it.
    • People modify our environment, such as building dams or cutting down trees.
  • We adapt to it.
    • We adapt to the environment by wearing clothing suitable for summer (shorts) and winter (coats), and rain or shine.

MOVEMENT

• Movement is how ______________, ______________, and ______________ are moved from place to place.

• Human Movement- people move from one place to another.
  • Trucks, Trains, Planes
  • Information Movement - Phones, computer (email), mail
• Idea Movement
  • How do fads move from place to place?

TV, Radio, Magazines and the internet.

REGIONS

• Regions are areas that share __________________________________.
  • Formal Regions
    • Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States, Countries, Cities)
    • Regions defined by ___________________________________. (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain region, Chinatown).
  • Functional Regions
    • Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell phone coverage area).
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• Remembering the 5 themes
• If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
  • M – Movement
  • R – Regions
  • HE – Human Environment interaction
  • L – Location
  • P - Place