Studying Geography
Geography Themes and Essential Elements
Geography Themes Definitions
100

A flat drawing that shows all or part of a Earth's surface.

What is a Map?

100

There are _____ themes of Geography.

What are 5 themes?

100

A specific description of where a place is is called its...

What is Absolute Location?

200
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.

What is Geography?

200

There are _____ essential elements of Geography.

What are 6 essential elements?

200

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

What is relative location?

300

A spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.

What is a Globe?

300

Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions.

What is the 5 Themes of Geography?

300

An area's land, water, climate, plants, and animals.

What is Environment? 

400

A field that studies people and the relationships among them. 

What is Social Science?

400

World in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, uses of geography.

What are the 6 Essential Elements?

400

2520 Durkin Rd. Brookshire, Texas 77423.

What is an Absolute Location?

500

All the human and physical features that make it unique.

What is Landscape?

500

Popeyes is located near the Church's Chicken and Adrian's Restaurant.

What is a relative location?

600

A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas. 

What is a Region?

700

A tool geographers use to see what land in an area looks like from above the Earth.

What is a Satellite Image?

800

Studying geography at a town or community level.

What is Local?

900

Information scientists gather

What is Data?

1000

What are the three levels Geographers study the world at? 

What are Local, Regional, and Global?

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