5 Themes of Geography Vocab

Describes the place's exact position on the Earth.

• Location

• Relative Location

• Functional Location

• Absolute Location

Explains where a place is by describing places near it.

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Functional Location

• Location

Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.

• Regions

• Movement

• Place

• Location

Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

• Location

• Regions

• Movement

• Place

Which of the 5 Themes of Geography describes when Geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how does their surroundings (environment) affect them?

• Movement

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

A unifying characteristic, like climate, land, population, or history.

• Regions

• Location

• Place

• Movement

Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.

• Geographer

• Oceanographer

• Pictographer

• Analyzer

The study of our Earth; our home

• Geography

• Oceanography

• Biography

• Autobiography

Anything that can be mapped

• Geography

• World History

• Relative Location

• Formal Location

The size represented on the globe

• scale

• globe

• hemisphere

• compass rose