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Geographic Thinking- Themes and Elements
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1
A group of places with common characteristics is called a...
Region
Place
Location
Movement
2
What theme of geography includes
how people modify the environment
?
Place
Movement
Region
HumanEnvironment Interaction
3
Which phrase best summarizes what geographers study?
The science of how GPS works
Reasons that people engage in trade
The history of world cities
Places and the people who live there
4
What theme of geography explains the
spread of religions
around the world?
Region
Place
Location
Movement
5
What theme is best exemplified by this photo?
How people adapt to the environment
How the environment affects people
How animals migrate
How physical systems change
6
What do geographers use the
Global Positioning System
to determine?
Population Density
Relative Location
Land Use
Absolute Location
7
What is
absolute location
?
The region that contains a place
The position of one place compared to another
The characteristics that make a place unique
The exact point where a place is found
8
The distinguishing characteristics of one location help define what theme?
Location
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
Place
9
What theme of geography explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?
Movement
Location
Place
Region
10
Physical systems
could include...
People using resources like iron
Patterns of where people locate cities
Characteristics of places & regions
Processes on earth, like volcanoes
11
What is an example of
human-environment interaction?
The spread of disease
The erosion caused by waves
A dam used to store water
A chart of high temperatures
12
What is
relative location
?
The characteristics that make a place unique
The position of one place compared to another
The exact point where a place is found
The region that contains a place
13
People using local materials to make clothes and build homes is an example of...
Push factors
Pull factors
Adaptation to the region
Modification of the environment
14
What is a region?
A location with specific characteristics
A group of places with common characteristics
A certain longitude ad latitude
A pattern of human movement
15
What essential element could include the
economic life
of people from a certain place?
Places and regions
Spatial thinking
Human systems
Physical systems
16
Which is an example of a
geographic pattern
?
Several cities located near bodies of water
Some islands off the coast of a continent
An ocean located near the North Pole
A river flowing between two mountains
17
Which theme looks at how people affect the environment & how the environment affects people?
Human-Environment Interaction
Region
Movement
Location
18
What are
geographic patterns
?
Questions geographers ask
Key ideas of physical processes
Similarities among places
Categories of information
19
What best explains what this photo is an example of?
How the environment affects people
How physical systems change
How animals migrate
How people affect the environment
20
What region is also a
continent
?
Russia and the Eurasian Republics
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
South America
