5 themes of geography

Agenda

-Do It Now World Map

-Discuss Upcoming Quiz

- “5 Themes of Geography” packet.

- Agenda Book

Quiz This Tuesday (9/14)

Tuesday’s quiz will include information from 2 packets, 7 Continents and 5 Oceans Pangaea

You need to know the location of all the world’s continents and oceans.

Open Response: Please explain to me, What Pangaea was. What scientist first realized that Pangaea existed? Explain how the continents got to where they are

today. (Hint: Talk About How They Move).

5 Themes of Geography

Created byMr. Raponi

Location

“Where are we?” is the question that Location answers.

This theme of Location is broken into two kinds of location.

Location may be

__________________or it may be

___________________.

More Location

An ________________ location is a latitude or longitude or a street address. It tells an exact place on Earth.

A _____________________ location is described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another. You may be able to give Peabody’s location by saying that it is 20 miles north of Boston.

Relative location gives you an idea of where a place is, but does not tell you exactly where it is.

Place

The Theme of Place is broken down into two kinds of characteristics,

_______________ and

_______________.

________________ include items in an area that are not man-made: landforms, weather, rivers, etc.

________________ are items in an area that people created such as buildings, roads, clothing and food habits.

Human Characteristic

Physical Characteristic

Human

Physical

What Characteristic is This?

What Characteristi

c is This?

What Characteristic is This?

What Characteristic is This?

Human/Environme

ntInteraction

This describes how humans and

the _______________________ affect each other.

For example, floods in the mid-west, hurricanes in Florida and earthquakes in California.

People prepare for these things because they know that they will have to face them.

A perfect example is that, just as we have fire drills here in school, children in San Francisco practice earthquake drills as well.

Human/ Environment Interaction is split up into three major subcategories:

_____________________ (How do people need to change their lives because of where they live),

____________________ (How do people need to use their environment around them to survive) and

_______________ (How do people change the environment in which they live).

Human/EnvironmentInteraction II

An Example of A Person Adapting to

their Environmen

t

A Fantastic Example of Human/Environment

Interaction

Movement

People everywhere

_________________________ with one another.

They travel from place to place and they

__________________________.

This theme explains how

________________________,

________________________, and

_______________________ get from one place to another.

An Example of Movement

McDonalds in Paris

McDonald’s in China

McDonald’s in Russia

McDonald’s in Pompeii, Italy

McDonald’s in Tokyo, Japan

McDonald’s in Cairo, Egypt

McDonald’s Facts The present

corporation dates its founding to the

opening of a franchised

restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15,

1955

Now found in 119 different countries.

31,000 McDonalds Restaurants found

worldwide.

Serves nearly 47 million customers

daily.

Movement II

When people from other countries came to the United States, they brought traditional foods, languages, and customs that enriched the American way of life.

The theme of

____________________ helps you to understand such cultural changes.

Region

A region is an area that displays a

____________________ in terms of the government, language, or possibly the landform or situation.

An example of a region would be the Rocky Mountain region, which starts all the way up in Montana and continues down to New Mexico.

The likeness that makes this area a region is the Rocky Mountains themselves.

Region II Regions can be both large

and small places.

Another example of a region is located in of the area. North Africa, it is known as the Sahara Desert Region, as the Sahara Desert covers most

Great Lakes Region

Sahara Desert Region

The Theme of Region

A helpful way to memorize all of the five themes is MR.HELP

Themes of Geography

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After a minute of thinking, Turn to your neighbor and teach them something that you found interesting during the class.

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