Chapter Thirteen Summary

 Chapter Thirteen 

"In 1984, the Joint Committee on Geographic Education¹ developed the Five Themes of Geography. These themes provide a useful way to organize the content of geography. The themes are:

• location (relative and absolute location of places and people on the Earth)
• place (physical and human characteristics of places)
• human/environment interaction (how places are modified by physical and human causes)
• movement (people interacting with other people through travel, trade, migration, and political events)
• regions (areas that are unified by common factors such as government, language, or landforms)"