The Five Themes

Question 1

Using latitude and longitude to pinpoint a place’s absolute or exact location

RLE: your mailing address

Answer 1

Absolute location

Question 2

The exact placement ( longitude and latitude, absolute location) of a settlement on the Earth

RLE: lower Manhattan Islands

Answer 2

Site

Question 3

Where a city is in relation to it’s surrounding features ( compared and connects) It is what I name of it .

RLE: Singapore’s situation has led it to have a huge economy

Answer 3

Situation

Question 4

A place name, especially one derived forma topographic feature that reflects the values of the people who named it . It can change because the people’s values change .

RLE: Pie Town

Answer 4

Toponym

Question 5

What is it like ? Description

RLE: Berea, KY physical characteristic is the Appalachian mountains while a human characteristic are the Kentucky derby race

Answer 5

Place

Question 6

Is when a location is assisted with special meaning,cultural landscape, or memories . Local diversity gives us our sense of place.

RLE: Texas is associated with the Mexican- American war

Answer 6

Sense of place

Question 7

Uniform landscape leads to placeLESSness

RLE: malls, stores,fast food chain , and gass stations ( al basic things )

Answer 7

Placelessness/ uniform landscape

Question 8

When we look at all the effects - positive and negative - that occurs when people interact with her surroundings

RLE: Human’s planting trees and humans being affected by tornadoes

Answer 8

Human Environment Interaction ( HEI)

Question 9

Also known as HEI. Is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environment

RLE: the air conditioner on our homes

Answer 9

Cultural ecology

Question 10

The belief that a physical environment affects social and cultural development

RLE: on the winter Olympics,countries like Canada,Norway,Sewden,etc tend to win gold rather then, for example, South Africa

Answer 10

Environmental determinism

Question 11

We now determine much of our culture rather than the environment

RLE: technology has made it possible to have fish in a land locked country

Answer 11

Possibilism

Question 12

Resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications/ they’re natural or form nature

RLE: we can use sunlight for electricity

Answer 12

Natural resource

Question 13

Is the use of Earth’s resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future / use wisely

RLE: Teslas

Answer 13

Sustainability

Question 14

It compare places using distance ,direction, time , and /or landmarks . It includes relative directions and absolute directions

RLE: it takes 20 minutes for me to walk from my home to Ronald Reagan

Answer 14

Relative location

Question 15

What do places have in common?

They are defined by certain unifying characters sich as physical,human, or cultural

Answer 15

Region

Question 16

A region defined by a predominant physical or human characteristic. It has easily identified and agreed upon borders . Difficult to change

RLE: the Appalachian mountain run through Kentucky ( a proven fact)

Answer 16

Formal/ uniform / homogenous region

Question 17

A region that includes different places linked together by wori g or providing a service as a until . It has a center point - a node and can be changed

RLE: Rond Reagan is a node and so are airports

Answer 17

Functional/ nodal region

Question 18

Region based on people’s opinions and preconceived ideas of a place ( changes constantly )

RLE: what you think of Washington D.C. vs someone whose been there

Answer 18

Perception/ vernacular region