Geography Basics
What is the study that focuses on the earth, its relationships, people, and the environment?
What is Geography?
What is a precise and fixed geographical point called
What is Absolute Location?
What does the theme of movement describe?
What is how people, goods, and ideas move throughout an area?
What are items created by human activities called?
What are Human Features?
Which theme of geography represents how people deal with the world around them?
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Name a man-made structure that geography studies.
What is a bridge, road, building, or factory?
Give an example of absolute location.
What is "2424 Batchelder Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11235"?
What three things describe movement?
What is the travel of goods, ideas, and people?
Give an example of a physical feature.
What is a mountain, ocean, or valley?
What term describes how humans change their environment to meet their needs, such as building highways?
What is Modify?
What do latitude, longitude, and an exact address help us identify?
What is absolute location?
How do we describe the point of a place using its surroundings?
What is Relative Location?
Which theme of geography describes how travel works?
What is Movement?
Name a human feature in your community.
What is a school building, bridge, or highway?
What is one positive way humans interact with their environment?
What is planting trees or recycling?
Which theme explores interactions between humans and their environment?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
Provide an example of relative location.
What is "Dunkin Donuts is down the block from Shell Bank"?
How do ideas spread through geography?
What is through movement?
What do we call elements created by nature?
What are Physical Features?
Name a negative interaction humans have with the environment that leads to harmful effects.
What is polluting or creating landfills?
What superhero friend helps us remember the 5 themes of Geography?
Who is Mr. Help?
What coordinates are used to express absolute location?
What are latitude and longitude?
Which theme would you use to discuss the spread of technology?
What is Movement?
What are the 3 ways humans can interact with the environment?
What is adapt, depend, modify?
What does it mean for humans to adapt to their environment, especially when they cannot change it?
What is getting used to their environment, like carrying an umbrella in the rain or creating shelter for the climate?
Hint: Think rainy weather