Geography Basics
The two types of location
What are relative and absolute location?
The part of a map which tells what symbols or colors on a map mean.
What is the legend or key?
The type of map which shows human-made borders among districts, states, regions, countries, or continents
What is a political map?
The largest continent
What is Asia?
An opening or vent in the Earth's surface which allows molten rock to escape from underground chambers
What is a volcano?
The branch of geography which focuses on naturally-occurring features and processes of the Earth, such as climate, landforms, plants, and animals.
What is physical geography?
The direction that longitude lines run
What is north to south?
The type of map which focuses on one specific topic, theme, or set of data
What is a special interest thematic map?
The continent which has the world's longest river
What is Africa?
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, often formed through erosion from a river
What is a canyon?
The branch of geography which focuses on features and systems created by people, such as buildings, culture, religion, politics, and history.
What is human geography?
A special line of longitude at 0°, which divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
The type of map which uses contour lines to show elevation and the shape of the land's surface
What is a topographic map?
The names of all of the major oceans
What are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean?
A large, relatively flat-topped area that has steep sides and rises to a higher elevation than surrounding land
What is a plateau?
The theme of geography which studies how a place shapes the way people live, as well as how people influence the land around them.
What is human-environment interaction?
The symbol typically used to represent a capital city on a map
What is a star?
The type of map used to show the general naturally-occurring features of an area, including elevation, vegetation, and/or landforms
What is a physical map?
The ocean in between South America and Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
An area of ocean partially surrounded by land
What is a gulf? (Sea or bay also acceptable)
The fives themes of geography
What are location, place, region, movement, and region, human-environment interaction?
The part of a map which uses ratios to help you understand the distances between places
What is a scale?
Two special lines of latitude, located at 23.45° north and 23.45° south, which form a region where the Sun's rays shine most directly on Earth
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
The smallest and shallowest ocean
What is the Arctic Ocean?
A narrow body of land which connects two larger bodies of land
What is an isthmus?