Five Themes of Geography
   Geography 
   is more than 
   names, 
   dates, 
   capital cities 
   and remote 
   locations on 
   maps.
    Geographers organize space on a map in 
    ways like historians organize time.
                            Five Themes of Geography
    There are five themes of geography that help 
    geographers organize space.  These themes 
    answer the questions: Where is it?  Why is it 
    there? and What are the consequence of its 
    being there?
                     Five Themes of Geography
                   Location
                   Place
                   Human/Environment 
                   Interaction
                   Movement
                   Regions
                      Five Themes of Geography
   The first of the five themes is Location.
   Just like it sounds, when you talk about 
   location, you mean a point or an area 
   somewhere on the surface of the Earth. 
   Absolute location can be a street 
   address or the latitude and longitude 
   of a place.  It’s very specific.
   The absolute location 
   of New York City is:
   40° 42' 51" N longitude
   74° 0' 23" W latitude.
                      Five Themes of Geography
             The Relative location describes 
             the location of a place with 
             respect to other places and the 
             environment.  
             New York City is on the eastern 
             seaboard of the United State.  
             The City was built where the 
             Hudson River flows into the 
             Atlantic Ocean. 
             The Big Apple is in the southeast 
             corner of New York State.
                      Five Themes of Geography
   The second of the five themes is Place.
   Place refers to the physical and human 
   characteristics in a location.
   Physical characteristics refer to mountains, 
   rivers, animals, plants, 
   forests, beaches, 
   grasslands, bodies
   of water, soil and 
   topography of a 
   spot.