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The Five Themes of Geography
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Name the 5 themes of Geography. You cannot use the acronym.

What are movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, place?

100

The 5 themes are used by these social scientists.

Who are Geographers?

100

2376 S. Home Ave, Park Ridge, IL 60068

What is absolute location?

100

The two types of Place are Physical and ________ features.

What is Human?

100

What are three examples of regions?

What are formal, functional, and vernacular?

200

Cultural features of geography focuses on these. 



What are customs, values, and heritage?

200

This location is where a site can be found in relation to another site.

What is relative location?

200

Mountains and Lake Michigan

What is Place (Physical features)?

200

Geographers study _________________by looking at how people use and change their environments.

What is human-environment interaction ?

200

The global address for a particular location expressed in latitude and longitude is an example of this theme of geography. 

What is absolute location?

300

It's the study of Earth’s physical and cultural features.

What is Geography?

300

In human-environment interaction, the environment includes the climate, landforms, bodies of water, plants, animals, and other factors that affect

What is life in a place?

300

Building houses by destroying forests

What is Human environment interaction?

300

People, goods, and _______ are examples of movement.

What are ideas?

300

Name two Human characteristics of a place.

What are population, language, architecture, religion, government, and culture?

400

____________ are sites or surroundings that you can hear, see, smell, taste, and touch.

What are Physical features?

400

These characteristics of a place include the population, language, architecture, religion, government, and culture at the site

What are human characteristics?

400

The midwest of the United States

What is Region?

400

Theme example: The school is next to the fire station.

What is relative location?  

400

The Great Lakes is an example of this type of region.

What is physical?

500

A _________is a pattern or main idea that consistently repeats itself throughout a site or topic.

What is a theme?

500

Geographers usually group areas into these three regions.

What are formal regions, functional regions, or vernacular regions?

500

Sharing a video of a speech made by a prominent leader on social media

What is movement (ideas)?

500

Region is an area that is defined by  _______________ characteristics.

common characteristics (or something similar)

500

The five themes of geography allow us to more effectively study this. 

What is the people and spaces around the world, their historical backgrounds, and their relationships with one another?