Five Themes of Geo
This theme describes where a place is, using absolute or relative terms.
What is location?
War, famine, and lack of jobs are examples of this type of factor.
What is a push factor?
A population pyramid shows the distribution of this characteristic of a population
What is age and gender?
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile river?
A topographical map that shows mountains, rivers, and elevation changes would best represent this theme.
What is place?
The Industrial Revolution led to mass migration from rural areas to cities. This was primarily caused by which type of factor?
What is a pull factor?
A wide base on a population pyramid indicates this kind of birth rate.
What is a high birth rate?
This type of map uses contour lines to show elevation changes and the shape of the land
What is a topographic map?
This natural phenomenon involves the sudden release of energy from the Earth's crust, resulting in seismic waves that can cause significant damage.
What is an earthquake?
The spread of McDonald's from the U.S. to over 100 countries worldwide is an example of this theme.
What is movement?
The Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities in the early 20th century was caused by a combination of these two factors.
What are racial discrimination (push) and job opportunities (pull)?
A top-heavy population pyramid suggests this about a country’s population
What is an aging population?
The measurement of how far a place is from the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
The term for a country that is completely surrounded by land with no access to the ocean.
What is landlocked?
The Netherlands builds polders to reclaim land from the sea, demonstrating this theme in action.
What is human-environment interaction?
n the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, thousands of American farmers left the Great Plains due to land degradation. This is an example of what specific type of push factor?
What is an environmental push factor?
A population pyramid with a narrow base and a wider middle suggests this about birth rates and workforce trends
What is low birth rates and large-working age population?
The type of map projection that distorts the size of landmasses, making Greenland appear larger than Africa
What is a Mercator projection?
This type of map, often used in cartographic analysis, portrays changes in data across a region, such as population density, climate, or land use, through color gradients or pattern symbols.
What is a thematic map?
The Sahel region in Africa, where multiple countries share a common climate and cultural traits, is an example of this theme.
What is region?
The brain drain phenomenon occurs when highly skilled workers leave their home country for better opportunities elsewhere. What type of impact does this have on the country they leave behind?
What is an economic decline or loss of people for jobs?
A country with a declining population may face challenges such as this economic issue.
What is a shrinking workforce or labor shortage?
This type of isoline map connects points of equal elevation, helping to represent the three-dimensional shape of the land on a two-dimensional surface.
What is a contour map?
The nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, which rendered large portions of land in Ukraine uninhabitable, is an example of this type of factor
What is an environmental push factor?