Five Themes
The acronym that helps us remember what the five themes of geography are.
Who is MR. HELP?
This feature shows us direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
At 29,032 feet this is the highest mountain on Earth.
What is a Mount Everest?
This country has the highest population (most people) on Earth.
What is India?
Having a limited amount of resources to satisfy our unlimited wants and needs.
What is scarcity?
A truck took potatoes from Idaho to California.
What is movement?
This line of latitude divides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This African river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile river?
Examples of this include low crime rate, nice weather, good schools, and many job opportunities.
What are pull factors?
A government led by a supreme leader with total control over a place, such as North Korea.
What is a dictatorship?
Egypt is famous for its ancient pyramids.
What is a place?
This is the southern most continent on Earth.
What is Antarctica?
This type of landform is a small piece of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
This term is used to describe a place with very few people and lots of open space.
What is rural?
An economic system where the government controls pricing and supply of products.
What is a command economy?
People go in a basement to shelter from tornadoes.
What is a human environment interaction?
This is the ocean east of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This step in the water cycle involves water on the ground heating up and becoming a gas in the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
This term is used to describe someone who moves in to a new country.
What is an immigrant?
The total dollar value of all final goods and services produced by a country in a year.
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin all surround lake Michigan.
What is a region?
This feature tells us how to read a map with the meaning of various symbols and colors.
What is a map key/legend?
When two tectonic plates are sliding against each other, this natural disaster can occur.
What is an earthquake or tsunami.
This type of graph shows us a country's population by age and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
This is when people preform an action to others instead of a good.
What is a service?