5+Themes+of+Geography+Project

__**5 Themes of Geography**__ Each student will be assigned to a group of five to research a city throughout the world. The city will be assigned by your teacher based on an interest survey. The final product will be a wiki space page created by each student to share the information they learned during the research process. Please use the research questions provided to guide your research.

First use the internet, your text book, library resources, videos, anything really, to answer the questions on your research sheet. Try to fill in as completely as possible with detail. If you have difficulty answering ask for help right away. Start with your team, remember you are all researching the same city. Someone may know the answer to your question. If your city team is stumped ask your teacher.

Once you have gethered all information, create a wiki spaces page titled (your city, your theme, your name). EX: Oslo, movement, John Smith. The pages can be saved on the 5 Themes Page. Each student will be graded individually on their own work 100 points). small group-work grade will also be given for how will you help each other out as a group (20 points).

Be sure to include all informaiton on your wiki space.

Please include: 1. an illustration for each question on your worksheet 2. detailed answers to the research questions 3. Your first and last name clearly at the top of your page 4. Lay out and organization that are extremely well done.

Mey/Knoener Lembrich/Langjahr

Click on your homeroom teacher's name to get to your name and wikispace Lembrich Knoener Langjahr Mey

**1. Location:** Where are things located? It can identify a precise spot (absolute location) or tell where a place is located in relation to other cities, countries, geographical features (relative location)
 * The 5 Themes:**__

**2. Place:** Characteristics that define a place, and explains what makes it different from other places.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**3. Movement:** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">How do people, ideas, items, etc. move from one place to another?

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**4. Region:** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Comparing physical and human characteristics. May be defined in many ways including: Area, vegetation, political divisions, etc.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">**5. Human-Environment Interaction** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">This explains how humans relate and/or interact with the environment. (Humans adapt and change the environment while depending on it.)