5 Themes of Geography
The five themes of geography
What is Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement and Region?
Mesopotamia is considered the "Cradle of ____"
What is Civilization?
River that was essential for Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
What is relative location?
Its location in relation to other things
Cultural Difussion is the spread of______.
What is, goods or beliefs from one culture to another?
What theme asks "Where is it?"
Location
Name the two rivers of Mesopotamia and explain one way it helped civilization.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates, and it provided water for farming, transportation and trade?
Flooding of the Nile helped Egyptian agriculture by ________.
What is, leaving the soil fertile for farming?
What is absolute location?
Exact location, ex: coordinates
Ethnocentrism means ______.
What is, the belief that one culture is superior over the other?
The theme that asks "What is it like there?" and two examples of features you might describe.
What is Place, and physical features or human characteristics?
The earliest form of writing in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
Scribes were important because _________.
What is they were trained writers who kept records?
What is an example of a push factor?
War, Famine, Poverty etc.
Assimilation is different from acculturation, how?
What is, Assimilation is fully adopting while Acculturation is adapting while still keeping original culture?
The theme that describes how people, goods, and ideas move, and one example of it.
What is Movement, and ex; trade routes, Great Rift Valley etc?
The Hammurabi Code laid out ______ for society and was important because of _____.
What is, legal code and established order and justice?
What is Egyptian writing called?
Hieroglyphics
Employment, Freedom, Family, Opportunities
Two cultural traits and how they can spread.
What is, Language, religion, clothing, and spread via migration, trade or conquest?
The theme that describes how people modify their environment, and one example of it.
What is Human-Environment Interaction, ex; building irrigation systems, dams, riding bikes etc.?
What are city-states?
A single city and its surrounding territories acting as an independent nation
Who was the leader of Egypt?
What is an example of adaption?
People learning how to fish because they live near the ocean
The Great Rift Valley is important to world history because ________.
What is, early fossils found there, considered "Cradle of Humankind," it connects everyone, and it was the start of World History?