5 Themes of Geography
Map Skills
Countries & Physical Features
US Immigration
Amazon Land Use Conflict
100
Which type of location would the following statement describe: "The Gulf of Mexico is east of Texas and west of Florida."?
What is relative location?
100
What color is the dot that is found at 60N, 105E?
Light Blue/Cyan
100
This country is the second largest country in South America and is home to the major city of Buenos Aires.
What is Argentina?
100
Explain the difference between PUSH and PULL factors of immigration AND provide an example of each.
Push factors are the negative aspects of an emigrant's home country that caused them to leave (i.e. poverty, famine, persecution, war, etc.)
Pull factors are the positive aspects of the country that attracted immigrants to move there (i.e. economic opportunities, more freedom, reuniting with family, better education, etc.)
100
This group found in the Amazon rainforest would NOT support burning as a method of deforestation because they would rather profit from cutting down trees and selling lumber.
Who are loggers?
200
The immigration of people into the U.S. and the culture, beliefs, and languages they bring with them best align with this theme of Geography.
What is Movement?
200
This type of thematic map will show the various types of land uses and natural resources in a given area.
What is an Economic Activity Map?
200
This mountain range runs through 7 different South American countries along the continent's western coast.
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
This term refers to someone that is forced to leave their home country due to a crisis like war, government persecution, other violence, or natural disasters.
What is a refugee?
200
This group of people in the Amazon Rainforest make a living from using tree sap and would argue for a sustainable way of using the forest's resources.
What are rubber tappers?
300
Provide an example for BOTH how humans can affect the environment AND how the environment can affect humans.
Possible answers:
Humans modifying the environment by building dams, bridges, shelters, etc.
Humans polluting or deforesting areas in the world.
Climates will impact people's way of life by changing their clothing, types of shelter, etc.
Environmental push factors can force emigrants and refugees to leave a country...
300
Explain the difference between total population and population density in a given area.
Total population refers to the total number of people in a region, country, or city; while population density describes the number of people that live in a given amount of space (i.e. square miles or kms) and explains how "crowded" an area is.
300
These are the 2 largest mountain ranges found in the U.S. and Canada.
What are the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains?
300
This term refers to the exchanging of language, music, food and other customs of a nation that occurs when many immigrants move into a new country.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
These THREE groups found in the Amazon Rainforest would argue that the forest needs to be preserved and protected.
Who are Environmentalists, Indigenous peoples, and Rubber Tappers?
400
The Amazon Rainforest is a large area of Broadleaf Evergreen forest that experiences a tropical climate throughout the area, and is well known for its vast biodiversity. Which theme of Geography does this best describe?
Region (half points for Place)
400
This term refers to the "central" line of longitude on earth that is considered 0°.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
This country in Central America connects North and South America, and contains a key physical feature/waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.
What is Panama?
400
This type of push factor of emigration would apply to Hurricane Melissa that recently swept through Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean.
What is an environmental push factor?
400
This was found in a 2021 study of the Amazon rainforest that alarmed scientists and activists concerned with preserving the rainforest.
The Amazon rainforest was producing more Carbon Dioxide than it was absorbing (due to the fires and deforestation occurring).
500
Humans building the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River to harness hydroelectric power would be this type of human environment interaction.
What is modification?
500
Latitude and Longitude lines are an example of this type of map tool that allow someone to find an absolute location on a map using coordinates.
What is a Map Grid?
500
This collection of mountains in Mexico actually has two separate ranges that run near each other. 
What are the Sierra Madres Mountains?
500
This region of the world had the most immigrants into the U.S. during the FIRST major wave of immigration in the early-mid 1800's.
What is Western Europe? (i.e. England, France, Ireland, etc.)
500
This former president of Brazil was elected in 2018 and allowed for higher rates of deforestation because of his support of farmers and settlers in the rainforest.
Who is Jair Balsanaro?