Through History and Adventures

Table of Contents

5 Themes of Geography

The Last Spike

Downtown Calgary

Calgary Zoo

Frank’s Slide

Head-Smashed in Buffalo Jump

Cave and Basins

Glacier Skywalk and Columbia Icefields

Golden Skybridge

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On the previous page is an image that I made about the 5 themes of Geography. In case you were wondering, the 5 themes of geography are: Location, Place, Human Environment Interaction, Movement and Region. We’ll go into more detail on each of these on the next few pages.

Location

Location is either an Absolute Location or Relative Location. An Absolute Location is a location that tells people exactly where you are. The most common examples of this are longitude and latitude coordinates or an address. A Relative Location is a location that describes where you are. An example of this is: “my rooms the first door to the right”.

Place

Place is one of the hardest to explain. Place doesn’t mean an actual place, as in the Statue of Liberty. It means something more like how a place can be described using physical or cultural characteristics that make things distinct

Human Environment Interaction

Human Environment Interaction is ways that humans depend on things, modify things and adapt to things. Some things that we depend on are food, water and air. We modify trees into paper, paper into books. We got cold, we adapted to make a fire. The rain put out the fire, we built a shelter. All of these thing are impacted on the environment, and the geographical location of where you are.