Geography Thinking Quiz

What do geographers study?

• the science of how GPS works

• the reasons that people and nations engage in trade

• the location of places and the people who live there

• the history of cities around the world

Geographic patterns are?

• questions that geographers ask

• similarities among different places

• categories of information about Earth

• key ideas about physical processes

This geographic theme that explains how people, ideas, and animals get from one place to another?

• place

• movement

• location

• region

Absolute location is

• the exact point where a place is found

• the region that contains a place

• the position of one place compared to another

• the characteristics that make a place unique

The essential element that geographers use to study the economic life of people from a certain place.

• physical systems

• human systems

• places and regions

• spatial thinking

The region that is also an entire continent is

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Russia and the Eurasian Republics

• South America

• South Asia

Places within a world region are linked

• by trade, culture, and other human activities

• by continent, language, and weather

• by language, religion, and dress

• by size and the presence of ocean currents

Mexico is located in the _________region.

• Central America

• North Africa

• North America

• South America

Relative location is

• where a place is in relation to other places

• a similarity between places

• the exact point where a place is located

• the characteristics of a location

A region is

• a large land mass

• a group of places that have common characteristics

• a flat surface built into a hillside

• the exact point where a place is located