5 Themes of Geography

M
I. How do people, goods, and ideas move from place to place?
A. How?
Examples: car books
Internet
Cell phone

M
B. Why?
1. Push Factors = negative
Examples: gov’t, financial, famine, mass migration…
2. Pull Factors= positive
Examples: jobs, climate, freedom…

M
Infrastructurebasic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society
Examples: buildings, roads, and power supplies
Emigrant/immigrant…what’s the difference?
Emigrant- A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another
Immigrant- A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

R
II. How are places similar or different?

R
A. Formal –defined by a limited number of characteristics
B. Functional- organized around a set of interactions and connections between places
C. Perceptual- people perceive or see a region in the same way

When the region on the left pops up, you decide if it is
Formal
,
Functional
, or
Perceptual
.
State of Nebraska
Amazon River basin
Dixie
The Sun Belt
Lancaster County
Country of Brazil
The I-80 corridor
Husker Nation
Formal
Functional
Perceptual
Perceptual
Formal
Formal
Functional
Perceptual

H
E
III. What is the relationship between humans and their environment?

H
E
A. Recreation
B. Urban (cities/buildings)
Rural (country/farming)
C. Examples: drain swamps, dig irrigation ditches/ Hurricane Katrina

Garbage Island

Garbage Island

L
Where is it?
?
?
?
?

L
A. Absolute Location -the exact place on Earth
B. Relative Location- describes a place in comparison to other places around it

P
What is it like?

P
A. Physical Features
1. Climate
2. Landforms
3. Vegetation
4. Animal life
B. Human features
1. dams, highways, houses
2. Culture (religion, customs, languages, political and economical systems, population distribution, quality of life, identity…)

How can MR.HElP
help you?

1. Kiwi fruit from New Zealand is on sale at the supermarket.
2. Man has driven the black rhino to near extinction.
3. In the bayous of Louisiana, many houses are built on stilts.
4. Railroad networks in Europe make traveling easier for tourists.
5 . Deserts are not all hot and dry; Antarctica is a desert of sorts.
6. Mauritania is southwest of Russia.
7. The warmth of the southern states makes them attractive for retirement living.
8. Islam is the major religion in the Middle East.
9. Sheep are raised in Iceland for the wool used in Icelandic sweaters.
10. The mountain passes of the Rockies are treacherous in winter and even a bit scary in the summer.
11..Write one sentence of your own that relates to one of the five themes:

StraitNear Egypt: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm ons/1/19/Red_Sea_topographic_map-en.jpg
Near Vietnam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea

Island

Archipelago-

Plateau-

Escarpment- steep cliff or slope

Mountain-
Rocky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngV66m00
UvU&feature=related
Ural
Andes
Himalayas

Volcano-

Valley-