Five Themes Of Geography
This theme of geogrpahy deals with how people, goods, and ideas, travel around.
Movement
What was Louis Sockalexis famous for?
Being the first Native American Baseball player.
The line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres is called...
Equator
These were the names of the natural sinkholes that had significance to Mayan culture.
Cenotes
A star on a map typically represents a...
Capital
This theme of geogrpahy describe the physical and human characteristics of an area that make it unique and give it a distinct identity.
Place
The Wabanaki used these as "super highways" instead of roads
Rivers (Penobscot River)
Lines that joins the North Pole and the South Pole.
LINES OF LONGITUDE (OR MERIDIANS)
These were man-made "floating gardens" used by the Aztecs to plant over water.
Chinampas
Name 3 features you might find on a Physical map
Mountains, rivers, lakes etc.
Settlers cutting down trees to build log cabins during the 1700's would be an example of this theme of geography
Human Enviroment Interaction
In the story "The Frog Monster," what does the frog steal from the Penobscot people?
Their water.
Lines that are also called parallels.
LINES OF LATITUDE
What is the name of the Mayan ball game that was hisotrically played at Chichen Itza?
Pitz or Pok ta Pok
What type of map shows state boundries?
Political Map
Name the two types of Location
Relative
Absolute
Wabanaki translate to people of the ________
or people of the ______________.
Dawnland or First land
When you cross me, the day changes.
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE
This man conquered the Aztec
Hernan Cortes
Which type of map is very colorful?
A political map
An area on Earth distinguished by unifying physical, human, or cultural characteristics.
Region
Name the 5 principal nations of the Wabanaki confederacy.
Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, MikMak, Abenaki
Line that marks 0° longitude
PRIME MERIDIAN
The name used by the Inca to describe the most important figure in their culture
Sapa Inca
The ratio of a distance on a map to the corresponding actual distance in real life.
Map Scale