1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Secondary Education

Week Four Geography Warm Ups

Five Themes of Geography

By Melissa Kelly, About.com

  1. List the five themes of geography.

    Answer: Location, Place, Human Environment Interactions, Region and Movement


  2. What are the two types of location?

    Answer: Relative and Absolute location


  3. Describe the relative location of your seat in the class.

    Answer: Answers will vary (Ex. I sit in the 3rd seat in the 5th row from the door.)


  4. What two types of characteristics describe a place?


  5. Answer: Physical and Cultural characteristics

  6. Describe why England and the United States can be a part of the same region?

    Answer: They have physical and cultural characteristics in common. One of the most noticeable is the cultural characteristic of language.


Explore Secondary Education

More from About.com

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Secondary Education
  4. Curriculum and Lesson Plans
  5. Warm Ups
  6. Social Studies Warm Ups
  7. Geography Week Four Warm Ups

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.