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