3.5.2 - G12 Revision 2 - Five Themes of Geography

3.5.2 - Revision 2 -

The Five Themes

of Geography

By Liz Anderson

Multiple Select

What are the questions that geographers ask themselves when they study geography?

Pick ALL that apply.

• What are the consequences of it being there?

• Why is it there?

• How do I get there?

• Where is it?

Multiple Choice

SPACE is to geographers what time is to historians.

True or False?

• True

• False

Open Ended

What does the statement 'no part of the world can be understood in isolation' mean?

Justify your answer. You have 5 minutes to answer this question, so do put some thought into it.

Multiple Select

The two locations that are used to find our place on the earth are called what?

• Absolute

• Relations

• Relative

• Absolutely

Multiple Choice

An absolute location coordinate gives you the answer to what question?

• What is there?

• Where is it?

• Where is it near to?

• How do I get there?

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes absolute location?

• My house is right on the corner of Smith and Jones Streets.

• My house is about 10 kilometres from my school.

• My house can be found at 55.7339° N, 37.4057° E

• My house can be found at 55.7339° N

Multiple Select

Absolute locations are coordinates that are found on which two lines?

• Prime Meridien

• Longitude

• Equator

• Latitude

Multiple Choice

What is relative location?

• Relative location is where your relatives live.

• Relative location is written as 55.7339° N, 37.4057° E

• Relative location is the relationship of a place to other places.

​Place: Physical and Human Characteristics

​The remaining slides are all about the next theme of geography: Place.

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​Read carefully through the information and answer the questions on the slides.

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​I know you can, because, remember, YOU are awesome!

Multiple Choice

What sort of question do geographers ask themselves when they think of the theme of 'place'.

• What sort of human characteristics are there?

• What sort of human and physical characteristics are there?

• What sort of physical characteristics are there?

• Where is this place located?

Multiple Select

Tick all the physical features.

• Champs-Elysees in Paris

• Mount Kilamanjaro

• A man-made island

• A rainforest

Multiple Choice

Human characteristics in geography can include such things as buildings, streets, and planned cities.

True or False?

• False

• True

Open Ended

"With a sense of physical and human place, we can read the landscape around us and make observations about what we see.".

What does it mean to 'read' a landscape?

Open Ended

What are three things that you observed in the previous slide? (Smaller image here for reference).

Extend yourself and tell me if they are physical or human characteristics of geography.

Multiple Choice

Geography is...

• The study of Earth and how we, the people who live there, interact with it.

• The study of Earth and its atmosphere.

• The study of rocks, minerals, and all physical attributes of Earth

Multiple Choice

Equator is ...

• An imaginary line going across the center of Earth that separates the eastern and western hemisphere.

• A region created when the Earth is divided in half.

• An imaginary line going across the center of Earth that separates the north and south hemisphere.

Multiple Choice

Prime Meridian is ...

• An imaginary line going across the center of the earth that separates the eastern and western hemispheres.

• An imaginary line going across the center of the earth that separates the north and south hemispheres.

• An absolute location on the map.

Multiple Choice

Location is ...

• The way people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
  
• Areas of the world that have common physical, human or cultural characteristics.
  
• Where a place is on Earth.
  

Multiple Choice

A place is...

• The physical and human characteristics of a place.
  
• The way people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
  
• Areas of the world that have common physical, human or cultural characteristics.

Multiple Choice

The 'human/ environment' theme of geography focusses on what?

• How humans build things

• How humans interact with the oceans

• How humans and the environment interact with each other.

• How humans can change the environment to suit themselves

Multiple Choice

Humans depend on the environment to provide them with their basis needs - food, shelter and clothing. True or false?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Humans can change the environment to suit their needs. They do this by digging, farming, and building for example. True or false?

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Tick all the things that show how humans have adapted to the environment. There is more than one answer.

• Heating in a cold climate

• Air conditioning in a hot climate

• Building a home with a sloping roof in countries with large snowfall

• Going to the beach on a hot day

Open Ended

Name TWO ways in which humans can move around the globe.

Multiple Choice

A desert area is an example of what sort of region?

• Economic

• Social

• Physical

• Political

Multiple Choice

What types of regions are these: social, political, economic, cultural

• Physical

• Human