5 Themes of Geography
What is it like there?
The Natural and human characteristics
What is place?
Lines that circle the earth parallel to the equator
What are Lines of Latitude?
A way of showing the earth on a flat surface
What is projection?
Number of continents.
What is 7?
Awareness of the world around you.
What is the world in spacial terms?
Common geographic characteristics of a place.
What is region?
Lines that circle the earth from pole to pole.
What is lines of longitude?
Cutting or stretching part of a map.
What is distort?
Number of oceans.
What is 5?
Hurricanes, volcanoes an glaziers.
People, goods and ideas from place to place.
The line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Sphere
What is the shape of the earth or a globe?
A continent in the north western hemisphere
Mastering the tools and technology used for studying geography that can also help us with our daily lives.
What is the uses of geography?
Recycle
What is human environment interaction?
A line that separates the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is prime meridian?
A special symbol used to find an absolute location on a map.
What is degrees?
The three continents that run along the prime meridian.
What are Europe, Africa and Antarctica
The movement of people, goods and ideas.
What is Human Systems?
Key to remembering the 5 themes of geography
What is Mr. Help?
Finding the intersect of latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
A "half sphere", referring to one half of the globe when divided into North, South, East or West.
What is hemisphere?
0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
When people's actions effect the environment.
What is environment and society?