five themes of geography ncscos: goal 1. what are the five themes of geography? 1.location 2.place...

Five Themes of

GeographyNCSCOS: Goal 1

What are the Five Themes of Geography?

1. Location2. Place3. Human-Environment Interactions4. Movement5. Regions

Location

•Everything on Earth has its own location – the place where it can be found.

Where Are We?

1. Earth2. North America

3. United States

3. United States

4. North Carolina

4. North Carolina

5. Onslow County

Onslow County• http://northcarolina.hometownlocator.com/n

c/onslow/

Place• Every place has physical and human

features that make it different from all other places. –Physical features are formed by

nature. –Human features are made by people.

Physical Features… Human Features…

                                                                                          Onslow County Beaches

Onslow County New River

Onslow County Bridges

Onslow County Vietnam Memorial

Human-Environment Interactions

• People and their surroundings interact, or affect each other. People’s activities may change the environment. The environment may affect people. Sometimes people must change how they live to fit into their surroundings.

Richlands Farmers Day Onslow County Farms

Onslow County Fair

Movement

• People, goods, and ideas move every day. They move in your state, our country, and around the world.

Regions

• Areas of Earth with main features that make them different from other areas called regions. – A region can be described by its physical features or its

human features.

Coastal Plain Region

Piedmont Region

Mountain Region

North Carolina’s Regions

• North Carolina has three major regions:– Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Regions– The Coastal Plain Regions is split into two areas:

• the Inner Coastal Plains • the Outer Costal Plains (the Outer Banks)

                                                             Outer Coastal Plains

Inner Coastal Plains

Coastal Plains

Piedmont

Mountain