Unit 1:

5 Themes of Geography: How are people and places linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas and goods?

• Movement
• Region
• Human-Environment Interaction 
• Location 

5 Themes of Geography: What are their unifying features and how do they form and change over time?

• Region
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Location
• Place

5 Themes of Geography: How do people interact with and change their environment?

• Human-Environment Interaction
• Location
• Place
• Movement

5 Themes of Geography: Where is it? Why is it located there?

• Location
• Place
• Movement
• Region

5 Themes of Geography: What is it like? All places have features that distinguish them from other places.

• Place
• Movement
• Region
• Human-Environment Interaction

A reading of 36 degrees North latitude and 140 degrees East longitude would be

• A Global Reckoning
• A Planar Projection 
• A Relative Position
• An Absolute Location 

Map that show population density are physical maps.

• True
• False

A formal region focuses on an area’s unifying quality or feature, such as the ‘Corn Belt’ in the Ohio to Nebraska area of the United States

• True 
• False

When geographers identify a perceptual region, they define it based on

• an area that has certain resources or produces certain products 
• an area which people associate with having certain traditions or values
• an area surrounding and related to an important central landform or features
• an area with political borders that mark different nationalities, cultures, and landforms

The building of dams and canals to irrigate desert regions is an example of the geographic theme of

• Location
• Region
• Human-Environment 
• Place