5 Themes of Geography
Maps and Stuff
Apartheid/Mayans
Rwandan Genocide
Miscellaneous
100
Denver is located at 39 degrees North and 109 degrees West. This is an example of:
What is Location?
100
This is how geographers show what information is on a map.
What is map legend?
100
The Rwandan genocide started because of this event.
What is when the Hutu president was killed in a plane crash on his way to sign a peace treaty?
100
This movie tells the story of an Aboriginal girl in Australia.
What is "Rabbit Proof Fence?"
200
By describing the food that people in France eat, I am describing this theme.
What is Place?
200
This is the imaginary line that runs from the North to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
These people originally lived in a area but were taken over by outsiders. Example: The Maya
What is indigenous people?
200
Some of them were killed because they refused to participate in the killing of Tutsis.
Who are the Hutu?
200
Over population, natural disasters, and war are all examples of these.
What is Push Factors?
300
This theme defines areas based on governmental boundaries, vegetation, politics, weather, etc.
What is Region?
300
North, East, South, West
What are the cardinal directions?
300
He is the first black president of South Africa after the end of Apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
They refused to help save the Tutsis from the Hutu.
Who are the Belgian, French, United Nations?
300
The customs and ways of life handed down from ancestors.
What is traditional culture?
400
This theme describes how people, items, and ideas are transferred (think travel, trade, information, communication)
What is Movement?
400
The longitude and latitude on a map tell you this.
What is absolute location?
400
The Maya developed these things.
What is a calendar system, great stone cities, sophisticated writing system?
400
They were favored by the Belgian colonists until the Hutu took power in 1960.
What are the Tutsis?
400
The most important parallel of latitude.
What is The Equator?
500
The people in Greenland have adapted to their environment by having to wear warm clothing almost year-round. This is an example of...
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
500
Three reasons that people use maps.
What is to find locations, find directions, show population, show resources, physical features, political boundaries, weather?
500
This man was black, lived in South Africa during Apartheid, was a leader against Apartheid, and was imprisoned and killed.
Who is Stephen Biko?
500
This many Tutsis were massacred by the Hutu during the Rwandan genocide.
What is almost 1 million?
500
The unequal distribution of wealth and resources.
What is spatial inequality?
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