Five Themes of Geography Place

By Tamara Long (7B)

Place is one of the five themes of geography. Place tells us what its like by
explaining the physical and human characteristics. Place tells us what its like.
Place will explain why that place is special and what makes it different. For
instance, Indonesia is special because of its wealth in culture. There are two
types of Place, human characteristics and physical characteristics. Human
characteristics are everything man made including buildings, machines, ideas,
religions, etc. I made a pie chart showing the religious make up of Jakarta.
This chart has given me a lot of information. For example, the majority of
people in Jakarta are Muslim. Physical characteristics are everything natural
in a place. Physical characteristics include landscapes, water bodies, land
bodies, animal and plant life, the climate, etc. To illustrate, in Global Jaya you
can find rambutan trees and kamboja trees. I made two graphs of the physical
characteristics of Jakarta. I made a graph of the average percipitation and a
graph of the average temperature. I now know that Jakarta is hottest in
October. I also know that Jakarta gets the most rain in January. So, place is a
theme of geography that tells us what a certain place is like. I made 3 place models
that helped me understand and explain what is place.

Classification system

Models-describe

Place tells us what

its like

My first model was a bar

graph of the average
temperature in Jakarta.
My second model was a
line graph of the average
percipitation in Jakarta.
My third model was pie
chart of the religious
makeup of Jakarta.

Understanding of the
world
Highest temperature:
28.5
Lowest temperature: 27
When do the numbers
trend up or down or up
and down?
According to my graph
the temperature in
Jakarta tend to go up in
March and September
and go down in June and
November.
What is the overall/main
understanding from the
source?
The overall understanding
is that the temperature in
Jakarta stays in the
barrier between 27 and
28.5. Jakarta is at its
hottest in October and its
lowest in January and
February.
Most percipitation: 335
mm
Least percipitation: 50mm
When do the numbers
trend up or down or up
and down?
According to my graph
the rain in Jakarta starts
to increase in September
and starts to decrease in
February.
What is the overall/main
understanding from the
source?
The overall understanding
is that Jakartas tropical
climate makes very rainy
at times, but the
conditions can change
quickly, turning it into a
very dry land. Jakarta
gets the most rain in
January and the least in
August.
Most popular religion:
Muslim
Least popular religion:
Buddhist
When do the numbers
trend up or down or up
and down?
According to my chart,
the main religion in