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