Five Themes of Geography
This theme asks where a place is on Earth using latitude and longitude. This is a specific kind of theme that is described using precise numbers
What is absolute location?
This industry, including activities like hiking and visiting national parks, brings in money from visitors.
What is tourism?
These beings came to test the Ashiwi and later on punished them for not caring about others.
Who are the Corn Maidens?
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? (or Bison Antiquus)
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?
This theme within The Boy Who Made Dragonfly was shown to readers when the Ashiwi used their water blessing on a food fight.
What is "do not be wasteful" or "be grateful"?
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 instructed the boy to create these to bring back the rain.
What are prayer plumes?
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 theme is described using familiar landmarks and general directions, requiring some pre-existing knowledge of the area.
What is relative location?
This location is the hub of the space/aerospace industry in NM.
What is the Spaceport?
This object represents themes of 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? (Also accepted: Migration or migratory)
The Chiricahua Apache (who were not officially recognized until 2011) are also known by what name?
Who are the Fort Sill Apache?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?