Themes of Geography
What are the five themes of geography?
Answer: Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction
Which type of map shows mountains and rivers?
Answer: Physical map
Name one type of plate boundary.
Answer: Divergent, Convergent, or Transform
Which process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces?
Answer: Weathering
The study of the Earth’s physical and human features.
Answer: Geography
Which theme studies how people use or change their environment?
Answer: Human-Environment Interaction
Which type of map shows borders and capitals?
Answer: Political map
What scale measures the strength of earthquakes?
Answer: Richter Scale
What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
Answer: Mechanical breaks rocks physically; chemical changes the rock’s substance
A round model of the Earth.
Answer: Globe
Give an example of relative location.
(Answer: “Honduras is south of the United States.”) any good example
Which type of map distorts size to show data like oil reserves?
Answer: Cartogram
Where do most volcanoes and earthquakes occur in the Pacific?
Answer: The Ring of Fire
Name three agents of erosion.
Answer: Water, wind, ice, gravity, people cutting trees, no plants
Imaginary horizontal lines that circle Earth. <--->
Answer: Latitude or parallels
Which theme explains how goods, people, and ideas move?
Answer: Movement
Which type of map uses arrows to show migration or trade?
Answer: Flow-line map
What is the point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus?
Answer: Epicenter
What five factors affect soil formation?
Answer: Parent rock, relief, organisms, climate, time, place
Imaginary line at 0° longitude.
Answer: Prime Meridian / Greenwich
Into which hemispheres would a place at 50°S, 60°W be located?
Answer: Southern and Western Hemispheres
Which line divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Answer: The Equator
How are mountains like the Himalayas formed?
Answer: When two continental plates collide – convergent boundary (use own words or gestures and the word plate or boundary)
Why people keep living in volcanic areas?
Because of the fertile soil.
Person who makes maps.
Answer: Cartographer