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