Poster 22 in x 28 in

The Five Themes of Geography!
A colorful poster that provides the definition with illustrations and examples.

1. Location
How do I get there? What is it near?
Exact location - latitude and longitude
Relative location - what is it near?

2. Place
What's it like to live there?
Describe the physical features - mountains, deserts, forest, rivers.
Describe the cultural features - Most people are Muslim.

3. Interaction
How do people relate to the land?
Are there farms up the hillside?

4. Movement
How are people, goods and ideas moved into and out of this place?
How do people get from here to there - by donkey, car, or bullet train?

5. Regions
Geographers invent regions.
They carve the world into physical regions - the Rocky Mountains.
They carve the world into cultural regions - the corn belt, the rust belt, the sun belt.

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