5 Themes of Geography 6 grade Social Studies Flashcards
What are the 5 themes of Geography?
Movement, Region, Human Environment – Interaction, Location, and Place
What single help you remember the 5 themes of geography?
MR. HELP
What is Mr. Help stand for?
M = movement
R = region
H = human
E = environment-interaction
L = location
P = place
What does a geographer do?
Study how and why the Earth changes
What is geography?
Study of the earth and everything in or on it
What are the three types of movement?
People, goods, and ideas
What does people stand for for the definition of movement?
How and why people travel from one place to another place.
Ex. Career, family, escape war, or religious persecution.
What does goods stand for for the definition of movement?
How products are moved from place to place
Ex. A truck delivering oranges from Florida to New York
What does ideas stand for for the definition of movement?
Ideas around the world; technology allows us to see ideas move
Ex. Passion, music, philosophies, language
What is the an example of region North Carolina?
Piedmont, mountains, and coastal plains
What are three types of regions?
Unifying, land, and culture
What does unifying stand for in the definition of region?
A region is a place on earth surface that is a unifying characteristic.
What does land stand for in the definition of region?
Different physical regions. (EX. Deserts, mountains, grasslands, and rainforests.) (Cities have businesses and residential regions.)
What does culture stand for the definition of region?
Share similar customs/values (EX. Southern states share climate, eat similar foods, many have a common religion, and have southern accents.)
What are the three different ways you can interact with the environment?
Planting trees, recycling, and polluting.
What does HEI stand for?
Human-environment interaction
What are three key words in each HEI?
Adapt, modify, and depend.
What do HEI geographers study?
The way humans interact positively and negatively with their environment and lasting effects. (EX. Positive: planting trees, recycling. Negative: polluting, landfills.)
What does adapt mean?
How do humans get used to their environment because they can’t change it. (Get used to.)(EX. Carrying an umbrella when it’s raining, or create a shelter for the climate.)
What does modify mean?
How do humans change their environment to meet their needs. (Change.)(EX. Build highways, railroads, irrigation system.)
What does depend mean?
How humans need their environments to survive (need.) (EX. Farmers grow food to eat in cell.)
What are the two types of location?
Relative, and absolute location.
What is absolute location?
Absolute location is defined by its latitude and longitude lines or a street address. This is an exact location. (X. Address, “the latitude and longitude of London, England is 51.572° N; 0.1275° W.”)
What is relative location?
Relative location is defined by workplace is surrounded by using directions, distance, and landmarks. (EX. The US capital is located at 38 miles southwest of Baltimore.; Freedom house is next to Bradford prep.)
