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?

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

   Esme's card asks, "What is it like there: its land, weather, plants and people?" Which theme is that?

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

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

   • Region
   • Movement
   • Human–environment interaction
   • Location
5. 4.

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

   • Human: it has a number
   • Physical: it follows the hills
   • Human: people built it
   • Physical: trees grow beside it
6. 5.

   Noah writes, "Tucson is at about 32° N, 111° W." What kind of location is that?

   • Absolute: it names a city
   • Absolute: it uses latitude and longitude
   • Relative: it names a state
   • Relative: it compares Tucson with the equator
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?

   • Absolute: it names an exact spot
   • Relative: it tells what Wheeling is near
   • Relative: it uses numbers
   • 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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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