5 Themes of Geography
Vocabulary
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Grab Bag
100
This theme of geography involves the travel of humans, ideas, fads, goods, resources, and communication.
Movement
100
What's the word?
Definition - written and other recorded events of people
History
100
What's the word?
Definition - the study of the Earth's surface
Geography
100
True or False - Mr. Greco used to perform in a boy band.
False, but it will likely happen in the future.
100
What is MR. HELP an acronym for?
Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, Place
200
This theme of geography involves humans adapting to and modifying (changing) their environment.
Human-Environment Interaction
200
What's the word?
Definition - the period of time before written records.
Prehistory
200
What's the word?
Definition - a person who has no settled home
Nomad
200
True or False - Mr. Greco and Mrs. Benante are really good at guessing the song that each other is humming.
True!
Now it's your turn to hum one song and we'll guess it!
200
Which theme of geography is this an example of...
Region
300
This theme of geography describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
Place
300
What's the word?
Definition - A scientist who examines objects to learn about the human past
Achaeologist
300
What's the word?
Definition - supplying land with water through a network of canals
Irrigation
300
True or False - Mr. Greco used to have curly hair.
True...
300
Define the vocabulary term, SOCIAL CLASS.
A social class is a group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living.
400
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
Absolute Location: Provides a definite location of a place. Often uses latitude and longitude.
Relative Location: Describes a place as it relates to its environment and connection to other places.
400
What's the word?
Definition - stories passed down by word of mouth
Oral Tradition
400
What's the word?
Definition - a period of time during which early humans made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; the earliest known period of human culture
Stone Age
400
True or False - Mrs. Benante gets paid more than any of the other teachers for having to work with Mr. Greco.
False, although she should.
400
Which theme of geography is this an example of...
Location
500
This theme of geography divides our world into areas with similar human or physical characteristics.
Region
500
What's the word?
Definition - a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans
Hominid
500
What's the word?
Definition - to adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and to breed them for human use
Domesticate
500
True or False - Mr. Greco used to be a fifth-grade teacher at Titusville Elementary school.
False! Mr. Greco used to teach at West Rd. Elementary School, where he taught Mrs. Benante's son!
500
Define the vocabulary term, CIVILIZATION.
A civilization is a society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes.