Geography Themes & Basics

Which is an example of positive Human Environment Interaction?

• Oil tanker spills oil in the Gulf of Mexico

• People continue to burn more of the Amazon Rainforest

• Government workers build a bridge to cross the Trinity River

• Natural gas leak reported in La Port, Texas

Which of these will determine absolute location?

• compass rose

• lines of longitude and latitude

• protractor

• calculator

Which is an example of culture diffusion?

• freedom of religion

• Americans using chopsticks

• moving from one country to another

• eating hot dogs in America

Shipping items by plane, traveling by Uber, or migrating to another country are all examples of_____________.

• region

• movement

• culture

• HEI

This general description of where a place lies is called its ____________

• Absolute location

• Relative location

• Location

• Mapping location

An area’s ___________________ includes its vegetation, waterways, and climate.

• human characteristics

• latitude

• absolute location

• physical charateristics

People changing the land it fit their needs is which theme?

• Location

• Place

• Human- Environment

• Movement

• Regions

Movement is

• where something is

• the physical features of a place (buildings, area, city)

• The relationship between people an environment

• how people, products, information and ideas get from one place to another

What best defines region

• explains where something is

• describes both the physical and human features of a building, area, city, etc.

• a group of places unified by a common feature

• how people, products, information and ideas get around from one place to another

Which branch of geography relates to people's culture and religious practices?

• Human geography

• Physical geography