5 Themes of Geography
Landforms
Vocabulary
Landforms Pt. 2
Grab Bag
100
This is the theme of geography that tells where a place is.
What is location?
100
This is the beginning of a river.
What is a source?
100
At this point, days and nights are close to being equal in length all across the world.
What is a equinox?
100
This is a body of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
100
This team won the Super Bowl last year.
Who are the Seattle Seahawks?
200
This is the definition of a region.
What is an area with at least one unifying characteristic?
200
This is a large, flat area that rises above the surrounding land that has a steep slope on at least one side.
What is a plateau?
200
This is the center of the Earth.
What is the core?
200
This is a landform that rises steeply at least 2,000 ft above surrounding land. Usually rises to a narrow peak.
What is a mountain?
200
This is the line at zero degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
300
This is a mix of human and non-human features at a given location.
What is a place?
300
This is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
300
This is the line that runs at zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
This is a low stretch of land between mountains or hills; land that is drained by a river.
What is a valley?
300
This is the layer of the Earth made up of hot, molten rock.
What is the mantle?
400
An example of this theme of geography is immigration.
What is movement?
400
This is a plain at the mouth of a river formed when material (mostly sand/small rocks) is deposited by flowing water.
What is a delta?
400
An example of this type of location would be if I told you that Kinnick Stadium is close to the U of I Hospital.
What is relative location?
400
This is an area of land surrounded by water on three sides and connected to the mainland by an isthmus.
What is a peninsula?
400
On this day 13 years ago, this terrorist leader helped orchestrate the attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
500
This is the definition for Human-Environment Interaction.
What is how we affect the environment and how the environment affects us?
500
What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
500
These are the lines that run horizontally on a map that help you tell where a place is.
What is latitude?
500
This is a small river or stream that connects to a larger river. (branch of a river.)
What is a tributary?
500
Last night, President Obama said that the United States would help get rid of a new terror group called ISIS that is primarily located in which two countries?
What are Iraq and Syria?