Five Themes of Geography
There are two types of this cateogry. One tells you the precise, specific and the other a general one.
What is location?
Tells you the subject of a map.
What is title?
Horizontal lines that show the distance from the prime meridian.
What is latitude?
A map that shows you the natural features of an area.
What is a physical map?
What is RARE Format?
Human and physical characteristics, including natural landforms and landscapes and man-made structures.
What is place?
Labels the symbols of a map.
What is legend/key?
Vertical lines that show the distance from the equator.
A map that shows you a specific topic.
What is a thematic map?
The study of the earth.
What is geography?
How people adapt to and modify the environment, positively and negatively.
What is human-environment interaction?
Shows you relative distance on a map.
What is scale?
0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
A map that shows you the human-made boundaries.
What is a political map?
What are the three economic activities?
Where and why people migrate from place to place.
What is movement?
Shows you directions on a map.
0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
Which two continents are in the Western Hemisphere?
Dividing the world based on similar characteristics.
What is region?
Tells you the names of places, locations, and regions on a map.
What is labels?
You would find yourself in the middle of the earth.
Where is 0 degrees longitude, 0 degrees latitude?
Austrailia.
Which continent is entirely in the southern hemisphere?