Five Themes of Geography

Illustrated by Tori Preston

Earthwatch Brazil participant, Summer 2003

Location
  • Relative Location
  • Absolute Location
Place
  • Human Characteristics
  • Physical Characteristics
Human-Environmental Interactions
  • Humans adapt to the environment
  • Humans modify the environment
  • Humans depend on the environment
Movement
  • People
  • Goods
  • Ideas
Regions
  • Formal
  • Functional
  • Vernacular (perceptual)

 

Aerial View of Aquidana:  Human-Environmental Interactions, Place, Location
Aerial View of Rio Negro: Region, place, Movement
Aerial Vista: Region
Artisan's Shop on Corner: Movement, Human-Environmental Interactions, Location
Bird Footprints:  Human-Environmental Interactions, Place
Busy Street and Train Tracks: Human-Environmental Interactions, Place, Location, and Movement
Campo Grande Skyline:  Human-Environmental Interactions, Place
Fazenda Rio Negro:  Human-Environmental Interactions, Location
Feeding Caiman: Human-Environmental Interactions, Place, Movement
Meat Market:  Movement of Ideas, Human-Environmental Interactions
Pantaneiro Moving Cattle: Place, Movement, Human-Environmental Interactions
Snake Print on Sandy Road: Place, Movement, Human-Environmental Interactions
 
Troubled Bridge:  Human-Environmental Interactions, Movement
Volkswagen Bug: Human-Environmental Interactions, Movement