• Today’s Goals – Review Geography Skills Vocabulary– Introduce Five Themes of Geography – Collaboratively Apply Five Themes of

Geography to Dallas– Apply Five Themes of Geography – World Geo. the News

World Geo. Skills Name: ___________________________________________________

Date: ______________________

Five Themes of Geography

•Place

•Regions

• Interaction (Human/Environment)

• Location

•Movement

PlaceWhat is Place? • It is a description of

what makes that place different to others

Dallas

Characteristics of Place• Physical - things that occur

naturally, such as mountains, rivers, type of soil, wildlife, climate etc. (Permanent)

• Human - things that have changed due to people, such as roads and buildings, how people live and their traditions. (Malleable)

RegionsWhat are regions? • Areas that can be

grouped together by a set of things special to that region.

Dallas

Types of Regions• Formal – areas designated by

official boundaries• Examples – township, city,

state, country. • Functional – areas defined by

their connections • Examples – newspaper

circulation, cable services, etc. (temporary)

Interaction (Human/Environment)

Interaction (Human/Environment)• How humans adapt to and

modify the environment.

Dallas

Types of Interaction (Human/Environment)

• Adaptation • Modification • Dependence

Location

What is location? • It is where a place is located.

Dallas

Types of location • Absolute definite location of a place

• Example – Latitude and Longitude, street address, state, zip code, country

• Relative describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places.• Example – Pennsylvania is south

of New York and North of Maryland. Sweden is northwest of the Baltic Sea.

Movement

What is movement? • It is the movement of people,

things, such as goods, as well as communications (the movement of ideas).

Dallas

Examples of movement• Migration • Types of communications

systems• Transportation services• Goods being

imported/exported.

Assignment• Apply the five themes of Geography to any country found in the Culture

Gram Binder (2006). • Format

– Country • Place

– Human – Physical

• Region – Functional– Formal

• Interaction – Adaptation – Modification – Dependence

• Location – Absolute – Relative

• Movement – Migration – Transportation – Communication

• Every other week you will be responsible for bringing in a newspaper, magazine, or internet article that relates to any of the five themes of Geography.

• What you will do. – Find an article in newspaper, magazine or internet that

relates to geography and print or cut it out. – Write a summary about how it relates to any of the five

themes of Geography. – In class you will present the article and discuss how it

relates to Geography and the Five Themes.– At the end of the week there will be a World Geo. News

quiz on the articles presented.

World Geo. in the News