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