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The World of Geography: Understanding the Five Themes

This chapter introduces the concept of geography and explores the five themes that geographers use to understand the world. Learn about the questions geographers ask and the information they study, including location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions.

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The World of Geography: Understanding the Five Themes

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  1. Chapter 1:The World of Geography

  2. Chapter 1: What is Geography?

  3. What is a geographer?

  4. The Five Themes of Geography • There are five ways to look at the earth • When geographers work, they are guided by two basic questions: • ______________________________? • ______________________________? To find these answers, geographers use five themes to organize information

  5. Things that geographers study:

  6. The Five Themes:

  7. ____________________ – Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another. • ____________________ – Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

  8. Location There are two ways to think about location: • absolute location – _______________ _______________________________. Examples: • relative location – _______________ _________________________________.

  9. Place

  10. Human-Environment Interaction • How do people adjust to and change their environment? How does the environment adjust to and change the people? • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  11. Movement • Explains how _______________________ __________________________________. • Helps geographers understand cultural changes.

  12. Regions • A region has a unifying characteristic, like __________________________________. • On maps, geographers use color and shape or special symbols to show regions.

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