5 Themes of Geography / 5 W’s Theme Questions /

Definition Pictures / Sentences

Location Where?

Where is the place?

Philadelphia is north of Delaware.

Philadelphia is west of New Jersey.

Philadelphia is east of Montgomery County.

Philadelphia is south of Bucks County.

Place What?

What do you see? (plants, animals,

weather, buildings, river, hills, food,

languages, beliefs, …)

 

Philadelphia has a river. Philadelphia has pretzels.

Why? How? How do people

change the environment? How does the

environment change people?

Why does this happen?

(roads, building snow plow, …)

 

People build houses and roads.

When it snows, people shovel snow.

Movement Who? What?

Who is moving? What is moving? How are people, ideas or things

moving?

Information is moving. People ride on a bus.

Region What? How? What is similar about a place? How are places

similar or different?

(temperature, land, language, religion,

work, …)

   

The Northeast Region has four seasons.

The land in the Midwest Region is flat.

Human / Environment Interaction

Name________________________ Summary____________________________

Location

Where?

Place What?

Human / Environment Interaction

Why? How?  

Movement Who? What?

Region What? How?

       _______________________________________________________________________    _______________________________________________________________________            _______________________________________________________________________    _______________________________________________________________________            _______________________________________________________________________    _______________________________________________________________________