5 Themes
A theme of geography that geographers invent and are areas on Earth that have common characteristics.
What are regions?
People who study land features, rivers, oceans, plant life and other physical features.
Who are physical geographers?
A star around which the Earth and 8 other planets orbit.
What is the sun?
The precise number of degrees to which the Earth is tilted, causing seasons to change as the Earth moves around the earth.
What is 23 1/2 degrees?
The date of the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere, when the south pole is tilted towards the sun.
When is December 22?
A theme of geography that we use to indicate where a place is on the earth's surface.
What is location?
A ten-year block of time used to study history.
What is a decade?
The eight planets in the solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune?
What is orbit?
The low latitude areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the Tropics?
A theme of geography that describes the characteristics of a location that makes it unique.
What is place?
A 1,000 year time span we use to analyze change over time.
What is a millennium?
A extra day added to the calendar every 4 years, as February 29th.
What is a leap year?
The longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, when the north pole is tilted towards the sun.
What is summer solstice?
The southwest United States is an example of this theme of geography.
A theme of geography that deals with how people adapt to and change their natural surroundings, and how people's natural surroundings affect them.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
What are centuries?
The layer of oxygen and gases that surround the earth.
What is atmosphere?
The shortest day of the year, On December 22, when the north pole is tilted away from the sun.
What is winter solstice?
The spread of Christianity is an example of this theme of geography.
What is movement?
What is movement?
What is Global Positioning System?
An imaginary line running through the center of Earth that we use to visualize the Earth's rotation.
What is axis?
Two days a year, in the fall and the spring, when the noon sun shines directly over the Equator.
What are the equinoxes?
Parallels lines that run east-west around the globe and measure north-south locations.
What are latitudes?