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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.


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