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