5 Themes of Geography
This theme refers to how people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
What is movement?
This describes the movement of land masses over the surface of the earth
What are plate techtonics or continental drift
True or False
Showing the round Earth on flat maps will distort some details.
What is true?
This refers to the relationship between the distances shown on the map and the actual distances on Earth’s surface?
What is scale?
I'm always wet but never dirty. I am a solid-liquid. What am I?
What is a bubble?
This theme explores how people adapt to and use their surroundings.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
This is the processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away (i.e. weathering, glaciation)
What is Erosion?
The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through which English city:
London or Greenwich
What is Greenwich?
This helps to establish direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
I visit you every night even if you don't call me! I'm lost every day. What Am I?
What are stars?
This theme explores how geographers use directions such as north, south, east, and west to identify where a city, state, country is.
What is Location?
What is the study of how people, objects, or ideas are related to one another across space called?
What is spatial analysis?
True or False
Landforms, bodies of water, and the foods people eat are all aspects of human geography.
What is False?
This is where you look on a map to determine what the different symbols mean.
What is a key or legend?
When I am filled I can point the way. When I am empty, nothing moves me. I have two skins; One without and one within. What am I?
What is a glove?
This theme divides the world into geographic units such as cities, states, and countries- or such things as "The South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East”.
What is region?
What is overall weather in an area over a long period of time called?
What is climate?
True or False
A map is by definition an unbiased view of the world.
What is False?
The different ways of modeling the spherical shape of the Earth on flat paper are called?
What are map projections?
4 girls are in a room: Jill is playing chess. Maria is watching television. Anna is asleep. What is the fourth girl doing?
What is playing chess with Jill?
This theme explores human and/or physical features such as the population of a city or the climate of particular area.
What is place?
The arrangement of phenomenon across the Earth's surface is called?
What is spatial distribution?
True or False
Lines of longitude (also called meridians) run from pole to pole; lines of latitude (also called parallels) run parallel to the equator.
What is True?
In defining a region, geographers might take into account all of the following factors except:
political boundaries, physical characteristics, cultural characteristics or literary history.
What is Literary history?
You walk into a room and see a bed. On the bed, there are two dogs, four cats, a giraffe, five cows, and a duck. There are also three chickens flying above the bed. How many legs are on the floor?
What are there are six legs on the floor. Four legs from the bed and your own two legs as you stand in the room.