Geography Quiz

What is geography?

What is map distortion?

What are the five themes of geography? What information does each theme give a geographer about the subject being studied?

Which theme of geography does each of the following situation represent? "Sometimes people have to go to a new place in order to get a better job." Which theme does this situation represent?

Which theme of geography does each of the following situation represent? "In the Midwest, there are very large fields and very large farms." Which theme does this situation represent?

What is culture?

What is a multicultural society?

What five social institutions does every culture have? What social needs does each institution meet?

Think about the five institutions that all cultures have. Pick one of them. Explain what that institution is like in the U.S. How is it different in another country?

What is cultural diffusion? How does cultural diffusion influence people and societies?