5 Themes of Geography

What is a region?

• Tells us ways in which the places in an area are alike

• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area

• Tells us where people and places are

What is movement?

• Tells us how people, goods, recourses, and ideas move from one place to another
• Tells us what makes an area special and what makes it different from every other area
• Tells us ways in which the places in an area are alike.

Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which?

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement

The Middle East is an example of which?

• Human-Environment Interaction
• Relative Location
• Movement
• Region

The fact that Africa is south of Europe is an example of which theme?

• Movement

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Place

What is the acronym to remember the Five Themes of Geography?

• MAD
• MRHELP
• PIG
• COW

Using lines of latitude and longitude to find an exact location is...

• Absolute Location
• Relative Location
• Prime Meridian
• Place

This theme refers to how humans modify, depend on, and adapt to their environment

• Human Environment Interaction (HEI)

• region

• Location

45^°N, 120°W is an example of

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Plcae

What are the two types of location?

• Physical and Absolute

• Absolute and Relative

• Relative and Physical