Geography Basics
How many themes do we study in geography
Five (5) Themes
A description of where a point is on Earth.
What is (absolute) location?
2376 S. Home Ave, Park Ridge, IL 60068 is an example of this theme of geography.
What is (absolute) location?
The two types of Places are Physical and ________ features.
What is Human features?
This are has similar human or natural characteristics.
What are the two types of regions?
Geography which focuses on what human movement, culture, landscape, and history.
What is human geography?
This theme of geography refers to the way people, goods and services, information, and ideas move from one place to the other.
What is "movement?"
Mountains and Lake Michigan are an example of this theme of geography.
What is a place (Physical features)
People _______ the environment when they change it. For example, adding a highway.
What is modify, change, or alter?
When people are forced to move from one area to the next, it is call a "Pull and Push Factor."
This is an example of the geography's theme of movement?
This is study of the earth, it's people, plants, animals and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography?
Humanity's positive or negative effect on the environment.
What is "human-environment interaction?"
Buildings houses by destroying forests is an example of this theme of geography.
What is human-environment interaction?
People, goods, and _______ are examples of movement.
What are "ideas"?
Human characteristics that a region can be grouped based on unifying culture, language, and religion.
What is a "region"?
The 5 themes are used by this person when studying geography.
Who is a geographer?
It is an area with a unifying culture, history, landscape or other common characteristic.
What is a "region"?
The Caribbean is an example of this theme of geography.
What is a "Region"?
The school is next to the fire station is an example of this theme of Geography.
What is "Relative Location"?
The Great Lakes is an example of this type of region.
What is a "Physical Region"?
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What phrase helps us remember the 5 themes of geography?
A list of the 5 themes of Geography.
What are movement, regions, human-environment interaction, location, and place?
Sharing a video of a speech made by a prominent leader on social media is an example of this theme of geography.
What is "Movement" (ideas)?
Region is an area that is defined by _______________ characteristics.
What is "common characteristics" (or something similar)?
People moving to a new place is an example of "Movement."
What is the "Pull Factor" of "Movement"?