Task 1: 5 Themes of Geography
Geography is more than memorizing names and places. Geographers organize space in much the same way that historians organize time. To help organize space, geographers are concerned with asking three important questions about things in the world:
• Where is it?
• Why is it there?
• What are the consequences of its being there?
Location
Where is it?
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Absolute: A location can be absolute (specific) as in coordinates of a map using longitude and latitude
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Relative: A location can be relative - examples: next door, nearby, a short drive, down the road a ways. Or, it can be in the same general location as another location - example: next to the post office.
Place
A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places.
Region
A region is an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. Those unifying or similar characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural.
Movement
Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America?
Human-Environment Interaction
Human-environment interaction looks at the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it
Location: Where is it located?
Place: What's it like there?
Human/Environment Interaction: What is the relationship between humans and their environment
Movement: How and why are places connected with one another?
Regions: How and why is one area similar to another?
?QUESTIONS THAT ARE ASKED?
How Does THe five Themes help Geopraphers????
The five themes of geogrphy help geographers by giving them and sawnser w to what they are looking at. For example LOCATION helps Geographers by giving them an exact direction or adress. PLACE helps describe both human and physical charecterstics. MOVEMENT helps geographers with the use of exporting and exorting goods from other places also movement is the way humans ineract with one another.
Regions helps us answer these questions: How and why is one area similar to another? How do the areas differ? Human/Enviromental Interaction provide keys to understanding the interrelationships between people and their environments.
