Give students time to walk too each display and make a decision about which object they will use to represent each of the five themes of geography. Have students select their favorite geography theme and do further research about the White Mts. Select another mountain range anywhere in the USA or world and begin exploring it through the five themes of geography until you find inspiration for a report, poster, or model to show what you learned. We appreciate your comments. The location of a place can be described in terms of absolute location, its lines of latitude and longitude.
Place is described in both physical and human or cultural features.
Physical features of a place are climate, soil, bodies of water, landforms, plant life, animal life. Human or cultural features of a place are ways of earning a living, languages, religions, architecture, transportation. An area of the world that has similar, unifying characteristics. These characteristics can be physical or human. A region can be as large as a hemisphere or as small as a classroom.