The five themes of geography, and physical vs human features

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Five themes card

   Location (where is it?), Place (what is it like?), Region (what area shares a feature?), Movement (how do people, goods and ideas travel?), Human–environment interaction (how do people and land affect each other?).

2. 1.

   Luz reads, "The New River Gorge in West Virginia has steep, forested walls and fast whitewater." Which theme does this show best?

   • Place
   • Location
   • Human–environment interaction
   • Region
3. 2.

   Milo reads, "The Navajo Nation covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah under one government." Which theme does this show best?

   • Location
   • Movement
   • Place
   • Region
4. 3.

   Noah reads, "Engineers built Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, which formed Lake Powell." Which theme does this show best?

   • Movement
   • Human–environment interaction
   • Region
   • Place

5. Region card

   Formal (shares one feature), functional (linked to one center or network), perceptual (set by people's feelings).

6. 4.

   The Corn Belt is the part of the Midwest where corn is the main crop. Pia wonders what kind of region it is.

   • It is a place, not a region
   • Perceptual: people feel it belongs together
   • Formal: it shares one feature
   • Functional: it is linked to one center
7. 5.

   Ren learns that one canal system, the Central Arizona Project, carries river water to cities and farms. What kind of region do its users form?

   • Functional: they are linked by one network
   • Perceptual: people feel they belong together
   • Formal: they share one kind of land
   • It is a place, not a region
8. 6.

   People draw "the South" differently on maps, depending on what they think of as Southern. What kind of region is it, Tala asks?

   • Formal: one law sets its edges
   • Perceptual: people's ideas set its edges
   • Functional: one city sets its edges
   • It is a place, not a region
9. 7.

   Depend on the environment (use it), change the environment (reshape it), adapt to the environment (adjust to it). Bo reads that workers dug the Central Arizona Project canal 336 miles across the desert. Which kind of human–environment interaction is it?

   • It is place, not interaction
   • Change: people reshape the land
   • Depend: people use the desert's sand
   • Adapt: people adjust to the desert
10. 8.

    California and Nevada to the west, Utah to the north, New Mexico to the east, Mexico to the south. Esme studies a map of the Southwest. Which state lies directly north of Arizona?

    • New Mexico
    • Utah
    • Nevada
    • California
11. 9.

    Jun traces West Virginia's border. Which state lies across the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork, to the west?

    • Maryland
    • Virginia
    • Pennsylvania
    • Kentucky
12. 10.

    California and Nevada to the west, Utah to the north, New Mexico to the east, Mexico to the south. On Kira's map, which country lies directly south of Arizona?

    • Guatemala
    • Canada
    • New Mexico
    • Mexico