Five Themes of Geography
What acronym helps you remember the five themes of Geography?
MR.HELP
What system of satellites helps you identify "absolute" location
GPS (Global Positioning System)
These people study events of the past.
Historian
True or false a map can be as small as a city and as large as the whole earth.
True
This first step of geographic inquiry
What theme of geography goes with the question "What is it like there"
Place
Giving someone directions like "take a left, go about 4 miles south and it is on the right you can't miss it" is an example of what?
Relative Location
This social scientist studies the functions of government
Political Scientist
Legend/Key
The second step of geographic inquiry
Acquire
Movement
The news gives you a traffic update! They are using what to do this?
GIS (Global Information System)
This social scientist studies scarcity and choice.
Economist
This tool tells you the cardinal directions of the map.
Compass Rose
The third step of geographic inquiry
Organize
What theme of geography goes with the question "where is it?"
Location
Lines on a globe that stretch east and west.
Latitude
This social scientist studies the cultural development of people.
Anthropologist
This is a spherical representation of a map that represents the whole earth.
Globe
The fourth step of geographic inquiry
Analyze
What are the five themes of Geography?
Movement, Human Environment Interaction, Location, Movement, Place
Lines on a globe that stretch North and South
Longitude
This Social Scientist studies how people interact in scoial groups.
A map that shows a smaller amount of area with a greater amount of detail has what type of spatial scale? (Large or Small)
Large
The fifth step in geographic inquiry.
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