• Introduce readers to the five themes.
• Provide an example of all five themes by applying it to Port Coquitlam.

• The five themes of Geopgraphy help us define a location or a place. By using terms like formal regions, functiional regions and perceptual regions we give information about a citiy or a region without giving addtional information. It also makes it easier to split them up into different categories like countries, cities or physical landscapes like lakes and mountains. That helps us to know if it was build by humans or created by nature. All those information create a detailed image of what we are describing. For example if there is someone who has never heard of Kelowna, we can help that person find it by giving coordinates. That would be the absolute location.
• Examples:

Relative Location: Riverside Secondary: Close to PoCO trail and PoCo downtown.

Absolute Location: Riverside Secondary: Latitude: 49,262

Longitude: -122, 78

Physical landscape: The river right next tot he school Riverside.

Cultural Landscape: The bridges built to cross the river.

Formal Region: PoCo is a city like Coquitlam and Port Moody are, too. They are politically independent.

Functional Region: PoCo, Coquitlam and Port Moody join together as a functional region to provide education for everyone.

Perceptual Regions: PoCo south and PoCo north are perceptual regions that were created by the people. There is no border and they are not even marked on a map as south and north.

Globalization: The devices we use to connect tot he internet like phones, computers and tablets are a result oft he globalization. Those devices might be developed in a country and then produced in another one and then sold all over the world.

Human and Environmental interaction: We burn the fuel that is made out of natural resources to get to schol by car or bus and back home. What we return to the environment is Carbondioxide.