Five Themes and Basic Geography
This theme explains where something is on Earth.
What is Location?
The long-term pattern of temperature and precipitation in an area.
What is climate?
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
These two major U.S. mountain ranges run along the west and east.
What are the Rockies and the Appalachians?
This is the largest hot desert in the world, located in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This theme involves how people adapt to or change their surroundings.
What is Human–Environment Interaction?
The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
In this type of government, religious leaders hold political power.
What is a theocracy?
This movement of plants, animals, and diseases connected the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This famous river, the longest in the world, flows north through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This theme explains how goods, people, and ideas travel from one place to another.
What is Movement?
These factors “push” people away or “pull” people toward a new location.
What are push and pull factors?
A dictator controls the government; this more extreme system controls every aspect of life.
What is totalitarianism?
This Christian denomination dominates religion in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The 1884 Berlin Conference did this to Africa.
What is divided Africa among European powers without African input?
The Ring of Fire surrounds this ocean and is known for volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Traditions, language, religion, food, and arts all make up this.
What is culture?
This economic system is driven by supply and demand with little government involvement.
What is a market economy?
The Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, and Big Ben are found in these three countries.
What are France, Italy, and the United Kingdom?
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa until the 1990s.
What is Apartheid?
These two types of location describe an exact coordinate or a place in relation to another.
What are absolute and relative location?
This climate zone includes cold temperatures and frozen landscapes near Earth’s poles.
What is the polar climate zone?
A chart showing the number of babies who die out of 1,000 live births is used to measure this.
What is infant mortality rate?
This European disaster caused massive migration to the United States in the 1840s.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Many rural African regions lack health care because of these three issues.
What are long distances, poor infrastructure, and limited medical resources?