The 5 Themes of Geography
Population, Geopolitics, and Migration
Reading Climographs
Reading Maps
Mapping/Territorial Morphology
200

The theme depicting the whereabouts of distinct spots on the globe. 

What is location?

200

The migration pattern involving family members following each other, overtime, to a new location.  

What is chain immigration?

200

The climograph shown here is located in this hemisphere? 

What is the Northern Hemisphere?

200

The name for different representations of the round earth on a flat surface.  

What are map projections? 

200

The name of this fragmented country. 

What are the Philippines?
400

This theme is helpful for exploring the conditions that give a particular location its distinct characteristics and feel (i.e. its "flavor").

What is Place?

400

The concept in political geography describes the authority to make decisions over social, economic, and political matters.

What is sovereignty?

400

Based on the data, this city is represented by the climograph below:

What is Anchorage?

400

This line demarcating the boundaries of the tropics is located in the northern hemisphere.  

What is the Tropic of Cancer?

400

The name of this country.

What is Afghanistan?

600

An area or division, especially part of a country or the world, having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

What is region?

600

A term that refers to people who have been displaced by natural or environmental disasters, famine, war, etc., and have had to flee but do not cross an international border.  

What are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)?

600

Based on the data, this city is represented by the climograph below:

What is Bombay?

600

These lines on the global grid are useful for both giving the coordinates of absolute locations and also determining time zones.  

What are meridians of longitude? 

600

Austria can be categorized as having this type of territorial morphology. 

What is a prorupted state?

800

This theme is helpful for conducting a spatial analysis of human migration patterns, as well as the flow of goods, services, information, ideas, culture, etc., across national borders.  

What is movement?

800

This type of migration involves a series of small, less extreme locational changes over time (e.g. rural to suburban, suburban to urban, poor urban neighborhood to rich urban neighborhood)

What is step migration?

800

This factor has no effect on a country's climograph. 

Options: elevation, closeness to large bodies of water, latitude, longitude, orographic effect, ocean currents. 

What is longitude.

800

The 4 largest continents (in no particular order).

What are Asia, Africa, North America, and South America?

800

The name of this elongated country.

What is Norway?

1000

Theme associated with exploring the two-way relationships of ecology.

What is human-environmental interaction?

1000

Countries with dominant old-age populations and problematic dependency ratios (e.g. Japan) could resort to these 2 solutions to the problem of too few working-age people (assuming they can't change their birthrates).

What is automation and migration?

1000

Given what you know about how climate effects economic development and therefore birthrates/death rates, this country's Climograph would most likely be associated with DTM stage 2 population patterns. 

Country A

Country B

Country C


What is country B

1000

The zones of the Earth's surface between the Arctic/Antarctic Circle and the tropics; characterized by moderate climate [i.e. mild, moderate temperature; neither hot nor cold].

What are the temperate zones?

1000

The name of this enclave country. 

What is Lesotho?