What are examples of the 5 themes of geography?
Location may be absolute or it may be relative. These locations, whether relative or absolute, may be of people or places. The movement of people, the import and export of goods, and mass communication have all played major roles in shaping our world. People everywhere interact. They travel from place to place and they communicate. We live in a global village and global economy. A region is the basic unit of study in geography. A region is an area that displays a coherent unity in terms of the government, language, or possibly the landform or situation. Regions are human constructs that can be mapped and analyzed. What kind of place is it? What do you think of when you imagine China? Japan? Russia? Saudi Arabia? Places have both human and physical characteristics, as well as images. How do humans and the environment affect each other? We change the environment and then sometime Mother Nature changes it back. For example, floods in the mid-West, Hurricane Emily (Hatteras), and earthquak
