Tuesday, October 25, 2011

5 Themes of Geography

So today in Geography I learned about the 5 themes in geography.  They are Location, Place, Place/People, Region and Movement. To help understand this I filled in a web-diagram about Spokane, so I'll share the definition of each term and what I said about Spokane.

Location: Talks about where exactly on the map it is.  For Spokane I said "...on the Spokane River in the State of Washington near the Idaho Border.

Place:  Talks about what it looks like there.  For Spokane I said "...a small city in a valley with a tall downtown on the river and beautiful parks and forests.

Places and People: Talks about how people have made it look.  For Spokane I said "...two wonderful parks made by people River Front Park and Manito".

Region:  Talks about what Part of the country and world it's in.  For Spokane I said "... Spokane is in Washington in the Northwest region of the country in the Inland Empire".

Movement:  Talks about how much transportation goes through there.  For Spokane I said "... Spokane has a busy internationl Airport and has both major rail-lines and I-90 running through it".

2 comments:

Diane Zemke said...

Great explanations. I like the picture of Riverfront Park. Old Guy says he thinks the most important part of Place is that they centered it around the waterfalls.

Jonathan said...

Grandma, what does Old Guy mean when he says they centered it around the waterfalls. Does Spokane have Waterfalls? Why would they center the town around them if they did have waterfalls.