Social Studies - The Five Themes of Geography Flashcards
What is Geography?
The study of the earth.
What do geographers use to organize the kinds of questions they ask?
graphs
Name the Five Themes of Geography:
Movement, Location, Regions, Place, and Human Environmental Interaction
The five themes of geography are the five big ideas that ______ _______ __________ _________.
help people understand geography
What might be a question that relates to the absolute location of Michigan?
Michigan is in the upper right of the USA (Anna - is this answer correct??)
What might be a question that relates to the relative location of Michigan?
Michigan is by Canada. (Anna - is this answer correct?)
What are THREE ways that people interact with the environment?
Chopping down trees, over fishing, and building new roads and houses.
How are goods connected through movement to other places?
Importing goods like bananas. Exporting cherries.
How are people connected through movement to other places?
Settlers came in the early 1800’s (eighteen hundreds) to farm Michigan.
How can Michigan be divided into regions?
Upper peninsula and lower peninsula.
To what regions does Michigan belong? name 3
The great lakes region, Midwest region, united states region.
What are physical characteristics (give examples)?
geographical features that weren’t made by humans. Examples: lakes, rivers, mountains, oceans.
What are human characteristics (give examples)?
geographical features made by humans: roads, bridges, and cities
