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Geography 12. The Five Themes of Geography. Location Nature of Place Relationships Between Places Regions Movement. Location. Location of a place can be expressed in terms of its proximity or distance from another place. Absolute location pinpoints a place on the surface of the Earth.
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The Five Themes of Geography • Location • Nature of Place • Relationships Between Places • Regions • Movement
Location • Location of a place can be expressed in terms of its proximity or distance from another place. • Absolute location pinpoints a place on the surface of the Earth. • It is based on a grid system such as latitude and longitude. • “Where is it?”
Examples of Location: • Latitude and Longitude • UTM Grid References • Topographic features
Nature of Place • The physical, natural, and human characteristics that describe a place and distinguish it from other places. • “What is it like when you get there?”
Examples of Place: • Topography • Climate • Cultural features • Economics • …
Relationships Between Places • The nature of the interactions between physical, natural, and human environments, and the consequences of those interactions for people and places. • “What is happening there?”
Examples of Relationships Between People and Place: • How one aspect depends on another (abiotic and biotic) • How one aspect adapts to another apsect (abiotic and biotic) • How one element can modify the environment for all the other aspects (biotic and abiotic)
Regions • Areas that have similar characteristics, according to a set of chosen criteria. • Regions are the basic units of geographic study • “What is it similar to?”
Example of Regions: • Common or distinctive characteristics (human, natural, abiotic or biotic) • Ethnic Regions • Physiographic Regions • Climate Regions • Language Regions • …
Movement • The interactions, interrelationships, and interdependencies of people and places across the face of the Earth. • Movement can involve ideas, information, communications of many kinds, as well as the physical movement of people and goods. • “What is going where and why?”
Examples of Movement: • Identify patterns of movement with living populations • Identify patterns with physical systems of the earth
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