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FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
Name: ________________________
Location:
1.
ABSOLUTE:
2.
RELATIVE:
3.
Absolute location is important to whom? Why?
4.
In relation to the equator, Philadelphia’s absolute location is the same as which
other countries absolute location.
5.
What else does absolute location tell us about these places?
6.
What are some examples of things that relative location can tell us?
7.
Can relative locations change? Explain.
8.
Why do geographers emphasize the theme of location?
Place:
1.
What types of characteristics distinguish one place from another?
2.
What types of physical characteristics can a place have?
3.
What types of human characteristics can a place have?
4.
Why are all places unique?
5.
Explain how Philadelphia changed from 1681-1781, and from 1781 until today.
People-Environment Relations:
1.
Why do geographers study interactions between people and the environment?
2.
What determines how people change and adapt to heir environment?
3.
Explain how people in America first thought of the Great Plains and how has that
perception eventually changed.
4.
How did technology change the Great Plains?
5.
What is the Great Plains area like today?
Movement:
1.
What is movement the study of?
2.
What has the migration of people resulted in? Give two examples.
3.
How has the movement of goods affected some American cities? Give two examples.
4.
What types of ideas and discoveries have spread over time? What effect has this had?
Region:
1.
What are regions?
2.
What are examples of a region's “unifying characteristics?”
3.
What defines culture regions?
4.
How do geographers use regions?
5.
Can you think of some characteristics of a particular region?