The Five Themes of Geography

AIM: How does Geography relate to our everyday lives?

Do Now: Answer the following question in your notebook.

How often do you use Geography in your daily life?

What is Geography?The study of the relationship

between the people and the earth.

The Five (5) Themes of Geography

Location

Place

Human-Environment Interactions

Movement

Regions

Location

Where am I?

Where was I in relation to someone in the Bronx?

Place

What makes school at BETA different than School in Egypt?

Human-Environment Interactions

How do People interact to their environment? Depended on It? Modify It? Adapt to It?

The Nile River - Egypt

Movement How do people

move from one place to another? Today? In Ancient Times? In Prehistoric Times?

How do goods/ideas travel from one place to another?

regionWhy do we call theThe Bronx, The

Bronx?Formal

Purpose

People’s View

What do we call the area in the middle between Europe, Africa, and the Asia Minor (The East)?

Why do we call this school: Bronx Engineering & Technology Academy?

By Government or Administration

For a Specific Need

Make it easier to Explain

Review: The Five (5) Themes of Geography Location

__________________ Place

__________________ Human-Environment

Interactions__________________

Movement__________________

Regions ___________________

The Five (5) Themes of Geography

Location Where are you?

PlaceWhere you are as compared to Someone Else

Human-Environment InteractionsHow You Interact with your surroundings (Environment)

MovementHow you move from place to place

RegionsWhat name we call a place for others