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Duplicate of Five Themes of Geography
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Geographic Thinking- Themes and Elements #geography
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1
What region is also a
continent
?
Russia and the Eurasian Republics
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
South America
2
What is a region?
A pattern of human movement
A certain longitude ad latitude
A location with specific characteristics
A group of places with common characteristics
3
What are
geographic patterns
?
Questions geographers ask
Similarities among places
Key ideas of physical processes
Categories of information
4
What do geographers use the
Global Positioning System
to determine?
Land Use
Absolute Location
Population Density
Relative Location
5
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
6
What theme of geography explains the
spread of religions
around the world?
Movement
Location
Place
Region
7
Which theme looks at how people affect the environment & how the environment affects people?
Movement
Region
Human-Environment Interaction
Location
8
People using local materials to make clothes and build homes is an example of...
Modification of the environment
Pull factors
Push factors
Adaptation to the region
9
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
10
The distinguishing characteristics of one location help define what theme?
Location
Human-Environment Interaction
Place
Movement
11
A group of places with common characteristics is called a...
Place
Location
Movement
Region
12
What essential element could include the
economic life
of people from a certain place?
Human systems
Places and regions
Physical systems
Spatial thinking
13
What is an example of
human-environment interaction?
A chart of high temperatures
The spread of disease
The erosion caused by waves
A dam used to store water
14
What theme is best exemplified by this photo?
How people adapt to the environment
How animals migrate
How the environment affects people
How physical systems change
15
What theme of geography includes
how people modify the environment
?
Movement
Place
Region
HumanEnvironment Interaction
16
What is
relative location
?
The position of one place compared to another
The exact point where a place is found
The characteristics that make a place unique
The region that contains a place
17
Physical systems
could include...
Patterns of where people locate cities
Processes on earth, like volcanoes
Characteristics of places & regions
People using resources like iron
18
What best explains what this photo is an example of?
How the environment affects people
How animals migrate
How people affect the environment
How physical systems change
19
What is
absolute location
?
The region that contains a place
The exact point where a place is found
The characteristics that make a place unique
The position of one place compared to another
20
What theme of geography explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?
Movement
Location
Region
Place
