Category 1
Which theme describes where something is?
Location
Which characteristic includes landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, natural vegetation, and animal life?
Physical
Which characteristics include religion, culture, and language patterns?
Human
Which theme describes how people interact with their environment?
Human/Environment Interaction
If I give you an address, is that an example of relative or absolute location?
Absolute
A specific description of a place, like coordinates.
Absolute location
Which theme describes the features that make a site unique?
Place
Which theme looks at how and why people and things move?
Movement
Which type of map shows human-made things like boundaries, names of cities and states, etc?
Political
Which type of map shows you how to get from one place to another?
Directional
A general description of where a place lies, in relation to another place.
Relative location
People depend on their environment for what?
Food, clothing, shelter
Which theme describes areas that share common characteristics?
Regions
The Heavener Runestone is an example of which theme of geography?
Place
Which type of map shows information about a specific topic, like climate or population?
Thematic
Air conditioning in the southwestern United States.
People change their environment by doing what?
Constructing dams, plowing and irrigating fields, digging mines, build houses, schools, and docks.
The Native Americans being forced from their homes to Indian Territory is an example of which theme?
Movement
Which type of map shows the terrain and natural features of the land?
Physical
Which landform is an area of slow-moving ice?
Glacier
What are the three ways people interact with their environment?
Depend, Change, Adapt
Within the theme of movement, which of these is studied:
Physical Systems
People
Transportation and Communication systems
All of the above
Which landform is an area of land covered by shallow water?
Wetland
Which landform is an area where a river deposits soil into the ocean?
Delta
Which landform is a rounded, elevated area of land smaller than a mountain?
Hill