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Use with The Geographer’s Toolbox, Section 1.2, in your textbook.
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1. 2 TH E M E S AN D E LE M E NT S
Categorize Photographs by Theme
How well do you understand the five themes of geography? Each of the
photographs at right can illustrate more than one theme. Decide which
theme is best represented by each photo and write it on the line. Then
explain why you think the photo best illustrates that theme.
1.Theme: Movement
Five Themes of Geography
Location Place Movement Region
Human-Environment Interaction
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The Geographer’s Toolbox SEC TION 1. 2
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2.Theme: Region
Explanation: Explanation: The barge is moving people and goods
Shows characteristics of the Midwest
from place to place.
3.Theme: Place
4.Theme: Interaction (H-E)
Explanation: Explanation: Characteristic of a location (physical)
Miners are interacting with the
A barge on the Mississippi River
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Farmland in the Midwest
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environment
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heme: Location
Explanation: The people are looking at a map trying to find the location of
a certain place
6.Categorize Choose one of the photographs and identify an additional
theme that it illustrates. Write the number and the theme, and explain
why you chose that alternate theme.
Miners at work in the Atacama
Desert, Chile
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Alternate Theme: Place
Explanation: Characteristics of the Midwest - farming
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Tourists looking at a city map
in Germany
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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
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