The five themes of geography, and physical vs human features

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

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.

   Bo's geography card asks, "Where is it?" Which of the five themes does that question belong to?

   • Place
   • Location
   • Movement
   • Region
3. 2.

   Jun's card asks, "How do people, goods and ideas get from one place to another?" Which theme is that?

   • Human–environment interaction
   • Location
   • Region
   • Movement
4. 3.

   Photo-style drawing of the Grand Canyon with the Colorado River at the bottom. Kira visits the Grand Canyon in Arizona, carved by the Colorado River over millions of years. Is it a physical feature or a human feature?

   • Human: roads lead to it
   • Physical: it is in a national park
   • Physical: nature made it
   • Human: people visit it daily
5. 4.

   Luz boats on Lake Mead, which formed when Hoover Dam was built across the Colorado River. Is the lake a physical feature or a human feature?

   • Physical: rivers make lakes
   • Human: boats sail on it
   • Human: people made it by building a dam
   • Physical: it is a lake, and lakes are natural
6. 5.

   Milo's family drives Interstate 64 through Charleston, West Virginia. Is the highway a physical feature or a human feature?

   • Physical: trees grow beside it
   • Human: people built it
   • Human: it has a number
   • Physical: it follows the hills
7. 6.

   Map of West Virginia's northern panhandle between Ohio and Pennsylvania, with Wheeling marked. Pia writes, "Wheeling is in West Virginia's northern panhandle, between Ohio and Pennsylvania." What kind of location is that?

   • Relative: it uses numbers
   • Relative: it tells what Wheeling is near
   • Absolute: it names an exact spot
   • Absolute: it names two states
8. 7.

   Ren reads, "Four Corners is where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet." What kind of location is that?

   • Absolute: it names four states
   • Relative: it uses degrees
   • Absolute: four states meet at an exact point
   • Relative: it names what is around it

9. 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?).

10. 8.

    Tala reads, "Trains and river barges carry West Virginia coal to power plants in other states." Which theme does this show best?

    • Human–environment interaction
    • Movement
    • Place
    • Location
11. 9.

    Zee reads, "The Sonoran Desert covers parts of Arizona, California and Mexico." Which theme does this show best?

    • Location
    • Movement
    • Place
    • Region
12. 10.

    Ari reads, "Farmers near Phoenix water their fields through canals." Which theme does this show best?

    • Movement: water travels through the canals
    • Human–environment interaction: people change the land to farm
    • Region: the farms cover an area
    • Place: farms are part of the land