The 5 Themes

Question 0

What is relative location?

Answer 0

A relative location is a location that is not specific and is broad like Utah borders Colorado.

Question 1

What is absolute location?

Answer 1

Absolute locations are specific coordinates or sometimes a street adress.

Question 2

What is place?

Answer 2

Place is a statement of the surroundings like what you see. For example, there is a building and a stream here.

Question 3

What is human environment interactions?

Answer 3

Human environment interactions are how humans modify the environment to how they want. An example would be, humans building roads and cutting down trees to use.

Question 4

What is movement?

Answer 4

Movement is showing that humans move a lot and it shows how they move. Like humans travel in cars and on roads.

Question 5

What are formal regions?

Answer 5

Formal regions are the Official boundaries of the world, like countries, counties, cities, and states. For example, Colorado, Jefferson county, and Golden.

Question 6

What are functional regions?

Answer 6

Functional regions are regions inside of formal regions such as paper routes, area codes, and address areas.

Question 7

What are vernacular regions?

Answer 7

Vernacular regions are regions that people made up like the South or the Midwest which a lot of people have in their “mental maps.”