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5 Themes of Geography 6 grade Social Studies Flashcards

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What are the 5 themes of Geography?

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Movement, Region, Human Environment – Interaction, Location, and Place

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What single help you remember the 5 themes of geography?

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MR. HELP

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What is Mr. Help stand for?

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M = movement
R = region
H = human
E = environment-interaction
L = location
P = place

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What does a geographer do?

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Study how and why the Earth changes

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What is geography?

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Study of the earth and everything in or on it

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What are the three types of movement?

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People, goods, and ideas

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What does people stand for for the definition of movement?

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How and why people travel from one place to another place.
Ex. Career, family, escape war, or religious persecution.

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What does goods stand for for the definition of movement?

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How products are moved from place to place
Ex. A truck delivering oranges from Florida to New York

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What does ideas stand for for the definition of movement?

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Ideas around the world; technology allows us to see ideas move
Ex. Passion, music, philosophies, language

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What is the an example of region North Carolina?

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Piedmont, mountains, and coastal plains

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What are three types of regions?

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Unifying, land, and culture

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What does unifying stand for in the definition of region?

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A region is a place on earth surface that is a unifying characteristic.

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What does land stand for in the definition of region?

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Different physical regions. (EX. Deserts, mountains, grasslands, and rainforests.) (Cities have businesses and residential regions.)

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What does culture stand for the definition of region?

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Share similar customs/values (EX. Southern states share climate, eat similar foods, many have a common religion, and have southern accents.)

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What are the three different ways you can interact with the environment?

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Planting trees, recycling, and polluting.

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What does HEI stand for?

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Human-environment interaction

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What are three key words in each HEI?

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Adapt, modify, and depend.

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What do HEI geographers study?

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The way humans interact positively and negatively with their environment and lasting effects. (EX. Positive: planting trees, recycling. Negative: polluting, landfills.)

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What does adapt mean?

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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.)

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What does modify mean?

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How do humans change their environment to meet their needs. (Change.)(EX. Build highways, railroads, irrigation system.)

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What does depend mean?

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How humans need their environments to survive (need.) (EX. Farmers grow food to eat in cell.)

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What are the two types of location?

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Relative, and absolute location.

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What is absolute location?

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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.”)

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What is relative location?

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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.)

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What are the two ways you can use place to describe the location?

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Physical, and human.

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How do geographers use place?

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Looking at the characteristics to tell each location apart.

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What are physical features?

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Natural landforms of the place; mountains, rivers, oceans, deserts, and climates.

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What are human features?

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Buildings, landmarks, and people; buildings, culture, language, food.

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