Five Themes of Geography
Maps
American People
Government
Free Enterprise
100
The theme that describes how people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another.
What is Movement?
100
Lines that run horizontally (east-west) which tell how many degree north or south of the equator a location is.
What is latitude?
100
The way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
100
A written plan of government. Ours was written in 1787.
What is the constitution?
100
The amount of a good or service.
What is supply?
200
The theme that tells where a place is.
What is Location?
200
A design with four pointers that show the cardinal directions on a map.
What is compass rose?
200
Important beliefs, such as freedom of religion.
What are ideals?
200
The type of government in which people elect representatives to make laws and run the government.
What is a republic?
200
The amount of a good or service that people are willing to buy.
What is demand?
300
The theme that describes what a place is like, including the human and physical characteristics.
What is Place?
300
Lines that run north south and tell how many degrees east or west of the prime meridian a location is.
What is longitude?
300
A group of people who share the same customs and language.
What is an ethnic group?
300
The type of government that the people have the power to make decisions about the government.
What is a democracy?
300
An economy in which people are free to start their own business.
What is free enterprise?
400
The theme that tells how people change their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
400
A set of lines marked off in miles and kilometers that allow you to estimate the actual distances between points on a map.
What is scale?
400
A count of the population, conducted every ten years.
What is a census?
400
The president that said, "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
A person that buys or uses goods and services.
What is a consumer?
500
The theme that helps make comparisons, and describes unifying characteristics such as climate, land, or history.
What is Regions?
500
Northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast are these types of directions.
What are intermediate directions?
500
People who leave one country to live in another country.
Who are immigrants?
500
The document that begins with "We the people."
What is the constitution?
500
A person who starts their own business.
What is an entrepeneur?
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