Five Themes of Geography
Types of Geography
Levels of Geography
Location
Vocabulary
100
The themes that describes where something is.
What is location?
100
The two main branches of geography.
What are physical and human geography?
100
A part of the world that has one or more common features.
What is region?
100
The two types of location are.
What are relative and absolute location?
100
The study of weather and what causes it is.
What is meteorology?
200
This theme tells us what "what it is like there."
What is place?
200
The Rocky Mountains are a region defined by
What is physical characteristics?
200
What are the three levels of geography?
What are local, regional, and global?
200
Your street address describes
What is absolute location?
200
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
300
The theme looks at how and why people move.
What is movement?
300
Questions about why rivers flow in a certain direction are part of
What is physical geography?
300
A geographer might look at foods, clothing, or housing in this level.
What is local level?
300
North of Doane College describes this type of location.
What is relative location?
300
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
400
The theme looks at common physical or human characteristics.
What is region?
400
A hydrologist might study
What is weather?
400
To compare different places with similar characteristics geographers divide the word into ___________.
What is regions?
400
A specific address is called this.
What is absolute location?
400
The land, water, climate, plants, and animals of an area.
What is environment?
500
Six important ideas that people use to organize their study of geography.
What is essential elements?
500
The study of people who live in West Africa.
What is human geography?
500
People who study the world and try to find relationships among people who live far apart.
What is global?
500
The absolute location of the White House?
What is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, D.C.?
500
All the human and physical features that make it unique.
What is landscape?
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