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5 Themes of Geography - 1st period (Movement (Definition: Movement…
5 Themes of Geography - 1st period
Movement
Definition: Movement describes how goods, ideas, information and people migrate.
Movement could be done LOCALLY, NATIONALLY, or even GLOBALLY.
Region
Definition: Region describes an area with similar cultural or physical characteristics that sets it apart from other areas.
Can be described in 3 ways
Formal Regions are identified by official boundaries and include cities, counties, states, and countries.
Functional Regions are made up of a single place and the surrounding regions tied to it.
Vernacular Regions are areas that don't have a formal boundary but are commonly known regions.
Human-Environment Interaction
Definition: H-E Interaction describes how people change their environment and how the environment changes the way that people live.
3 ways to look at interaction
People DEPEND on their environment
People ADAPT to their environment
People MODIFY their environment
Location
Definition: Location describes where a place is on earth
2 types of location
Absolute location is a place's exact location. Absolute location can be identified with latitude and longitude coordinates or an exact address.
Relative location is a description of a place's location in relation to other places. You could describe a place using words like nearby, above, down the road, east of, etc.
Place
Definition: Place describes the physical and human characteristics of a location
Can be described in 2 ways
Physical Characteristics describe the natural environment of a place
Human Characteristics describe the people of a place, both past and present.