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5 Themes of Geography
16 cards·by pgsull
Goods, people and ideas
movement
Depend on, adapt to, and modify/change the environment
human/environment interaction
What is it like?
place
Unifying Characteristics - how geographers divide the world
region
What makes it unique/different than other areas?
place
How people and places are linked?
human/environment interaction
Where is it?
location
Absolute and relative
location
Midwest, southwest, southeast, northeast, and west
region
How we impact the world and the world impacts us?
human/environment interaction
What are the two types of characteristics of a place?
Human and physical
This theme explains how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.
movement
This theme includes cardinal directions, latitude, longitude, absolute location, and
relative location
location
This theme explores how people affect their environment, or their natural surroundings, and
how the environment affects them.
human-environment interaction
This theme is used to group places that have something in common. These places have unifying
human or physical features such as population
region
This theme includes the human and physical features at a specific location.
place