5 Themes of Geography Assessment

Geographers use the Five Themes of Geography to study ____________________.

• life

• planets

• people

• Earth

Which theme of geography is used to tell what it is like somewhere by describing the unique physical or human characteristics of the area?

• Movement

• Place

• Region

• Human Environment Interaction

Geographers use the theme of _______________ to tell where a place can be found.

• Location

• Place

• Region

• Human Environment Interaction

A geographic area in which places are grouped together based on the common characteristics they share is called a ___________________.

• Place

• Movement

• Region

• Location

Natural features of a place, such as landforms, bodies of water, and climate, are also known as

____________________ characteristics.

• cultural

• human

• political

• physical

The _________________ location of a place can be given with latitude and longitude coordinates or by giving the address.

• absolute

• interactive

• estimated

• relative

The ways that humans and the environments they live in affect each other are studied using the theme of human-environment _______________________,

• dependence

• interaction

• thingamabob

• conflict

• location

When people make adjustments in order to live in a specific environment they are ___________________.

• modifying it

• adapting to it

• depending on it

• controlling it

Things that describe the people in a specific place and things that people have built or created are known as _________________ characteristics.

• human

• natural

• geographical

• physical

The theme of ____________________ deals with how and why people, goods, and ideas are transported from place to place.

• Location

• Movement

• Region

• Place