The five themes of geography, and physical vs human features
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet
Circle the best answer.
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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?).
Luz reads, "The New River Gorge in West Virginia has steep, forested walls and fast whitewater." Which theme does this show best?
- Location
- Human–environment interaction
- Region
- Place
Milo reads, "The Navajo Nation covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah under one government." Which theme does this show best?
- Place
- Location
- Region
- Movement
Noah reads, "Engineers built Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, which formed Lake Powell." Which theme does this show best?
- Human–environment interaction
- Place
- Region
- Movement
Region card
Formal (shares one feature), functional (linked to one center or network), perceptual (set by people's feelings).
The Corn Belt is the part of the Midwest where corn is the main crop. Pia wonders what kind of region it is.
- Perceptual: people feel it belongs together
- It is a place, not a region
- Functional: it is linked to one center
- Formal: it shares one feature
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?
- Formal: they share one kind of land
- It is a place, not a region
- Functional: they are linked by one network
- Perceptual: people feel they belong together
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
- It is a place, not a region
- Functional: one city sets its edges
- Perceptual: people's ideas set its edges
Card
Depend on the environment (use it), change the environment (reshape it), adapt to the environment (adjust to it).
Families in Casa Grande, Arizona, cool their homes with air conditioning during hot summers. Zee sorts this example. Which kind of human–environment interaction is it?
- It is movement, not interaction
- Change: people reshape the land
- Adapt: people adjust to the heat
- Depend: people use the land's resources
Sawmills in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, cut lumber from nearby forests. Ari sorts this example. Which kind of human–environment interaction is it?
- Adapt: people adjust to the forest
- Depend: people use the forest's wood
- It is movement, not interaction
- Change: people build a new forest
Map of Arizona and its neighbors
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?
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- California
- Utah
On Kira's map, which country lies directly south of Arizona?
- New Mexico
- Canada
- Mexico
- Guatemala