5 Themes of Geography

The Five Themes of Geography are the Following:

• Place, Region, Interaction, Land-forms, Movement

• Place, Region, Interaction, Location, Movement

• People, Race, Interaction, Location Movement

• Power, Region, Interaction, Location Movement

Relative location is:

• Latitude and Longitude
• Given by GPS
• a general location, not specific
• a specific place:

Absolute location is:

• general
• not used on GPS
• is saying that Two Rivers is in East Hartford
• uses latitude and longitude to give a specific area

The theme movement has to do with what ideas:

• Migration and Trade
• Latitude and longitude
• Pollution
• Human and Physical Characteristics

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

• Location
• Place
• Human-Environment Interaction
• Movement

People leaving their homes in Syria and travelling to Turkey to avoid ISIS is an example of which?

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

What do we call people who study geography?

• Archeologists

• Geographers

• Anthropologists

• Geologist

Place refers to the ____________ characteristics of an area.

• physical and mental

• emotional and human

• human and mental

• physical and human

What is geography?

• the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants and occurrences of Earth

• the science of the stars and planets

• the science that studies rocks and minerals

• the science that studies people

A three dimensional representation of the earth that is hard to carry around

• book

• globe

• map

• graph