5 Themes of Geography

The Five Themes of Geography are the Following:

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

• Place, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, Movement

• People, Race, Human Environment Interaction, Location Movement

• Power, Region, Human Environment 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

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

Which of the following is NOT a theme of geography?

• place
• location
• history
• human-environment interaction

People cutting down trees, creating watersheds, draining wetlands and polluting soil are all examples of this theme.

• regions
• movement
• human-environment interaction
• location

The theme of geography that describes what it is like to live there using an area’s physical and  human characteristics is

• Region
• Place
• Human Environment Interaction
• Movement

What question does the theme of place ask?

• “What is it like?” (or “What makes this place different from other places?”)
• Where is it?
• How do people and the environment interact?
• What do places have in common?

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

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