Five Themes of Geography
This theme asks where a place is on Earth using latitude and longitude.
What is location?
This industry, including activities like hiking and visiting national parks, brings in money from visitors.
What is tourism?
The Dragonfly was made of this.
What are cornstalks?
This site in New Mexico is one of the oldest known archaeological locations in North America.
What is the Blackwater Draw?
This pueblo/tribe is called “Sky City” because it is built high on a mesa.
Who are the Acoma?
This symbol on a map tells you what the symbols and colors mean.
What is a key or legend?
This theme describes physical and human characteristics of an area.
What is place?
This modern industry in New Mexico involves building satellites and working with NASA.
What is space/aerospace?
This was the third person left behind by the tribe.
Who is the Old Mother (old woman)?
When certain large, prehistoric animals went extinct, Paleo-Indians adapted by hunting these smaller animals.
What are bison?
This pueblo/tribe is near the Arizona border and is known for turquoise jewelry.
Who are the Zuni?
These two buildings in New York City were attacked on 9/11/01.
What are the Twin Towers or World Trade Center?
This theme explains how people adapt to or change their surroundings.
What is human-environment interaction?
This industry involves drilling, prospecting, and surveying and is popular, particularly in eastern NM.
What is mining, oil, and natural gas?
To survive, the villagers must leave their home to find this.
What are food and water?
These tools, attached to long wooden shafts, were thrown to hunt large animals before the invention of the bow and arrow.
What are atlatls?
This pueblo/tribe sits west of Albuquerque and is one of the largest by land size, covering about 500,000 acres.
Who are the Laguna?
This line on a globe divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This theme refers to how people, goods, and ideas travel from one area to another.
What is movement?
This industry is rapidly increasing in New Mexico and involves studios, sound stages, and props.
What is the film industry?
This story is an example of this type of tale, which explains something about the world.
What is a myth or legend?
Paleo-Indians hunted these giant animals, similar to elephants, that went extinct.
What are mammoths?
These tribes descended from the Athabaskan-speaking people who migrated South around 800-1000 years ago.
This terrorist leader was the mastermind behind the 9/11/01 attacks on America.
Who was Osama bin Laden?
This theme divides the world into areas with similar features such as culture, climate, or language.
What is region?
Elements such as soil, weather, elevation, and overall climate are key factors related to this very important industry in New Mexico.
What is agriculture?
After hearing the dragonfly’s message, the gods send this to help the people.
What is rain?
This later Paleo-Indian group came after the Clovis people and is known for their finely crafted, smaller spear points that are commonly referred to as these.
What are Folsom Points?
Soldiers from the Navajo tribe who helped the Allies win WWII through their “unbreakable” radio code language are called what?
Who are the Code Talkers?
The lines that run north and south but measure east and west are called these.
What are lines of longitude?
This object represents both survival and generosity in the story.
What is the Dragonfly?
Paleo-Indians were known as this because they traveled from place to place to find food.
What is nomadic?
The Chiricahua Apache are also known by what name?
Who are the Fort Sill Apache?
This type of map shows countries, states, and cities instead of natural features.
What is a political map?