This theme looks at how and why people and things change locations.
What is Movement?
While it cannot fit into your pocket, this geographical tool is preferred for its accuracy in showing Earth’s continents and bodies of water.
What is a Globe?
This part of a map shows the size of an area as compared to that area’s real-world size.
What is Scale?
This is the moving OUT of your home country.
What is Emigration?
Earth has this many continents.
What is 7?
This theme identifies the exact latitude & longitude of a place.
What is Location?
It can be very, very detailed (even showing an exact address).
What is a Map?
Without this, we wouldn’t know which direction is up.
What is a Compass Rose?
A place’s long-term average temperature and precipitation.
What is Climate?
Geographers try to find the answers to these two questions.
What are: Where is it, and Why is it there?
Descriptions of physical features, important businesses, popular foods, and famous residents in Virginia use this theme
What is Place?
It contains a Compass Rose.
What is Both?
Geographers use this to show the meaning of different symbols.
What is the Key or Legend?
A person uses this type of map to study the elevation of a region.
What is Topographical?
Between Push and Pull Factors, which ones force you to leave a place?
What are Push Factors?
Studying the consequences of people’s actions uses this theme.
What is Human/Environmental Interaction?
It (usually) doesn't have a title.
What is a Globe?
It can use feet, miles, kilometers, or even light years to show a distance.
What is Scale?
These are the lines that run North to South across a globe.
What are lines of Longitude?
The food you eat travels this many miles to your plate.
What is 1500?
This theme studies how and why places are similar to other places.
What is Region?
Because of its natural distortion, Greenland sometimes appears bigger than Africa (even though it's not).
What is a Map?
Without this, a reader may not know the overall purpose of a particular map.
What is a Title?
1600 Pennsylvania Ave is an example of this type of location.
What is Absolute Location?
Almost all of this country's 18 million residents live on the coast because the center region is too dry and dangerous.
What is Australia?