The best class ever, of course
What is 7th Grade Social Studies?
This theme refers to how people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
What is Movement
A field of study that includes physical and human branches
What is Geography?
Not Zelda, but another name for the map key on a map.
What is the legend?
Movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
Bodies of water
What is physical geography
This theme explores how people use, change, and are changed by their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction
A system that uses a network of Earth orbiting satellites to pinpoint absolute locations.
What is a GPS (global positioning satellite) system?
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
Language, religion, customs, art, clothing styles, and family structures are part of this
What is culture?
Climate
What is physical geography
Absolutely, this theme explores how geographers use directions and coordinates to identify where something is found.
What is Location
The 0 degrees line of LATITUDE is called this.
What is the Equator
Something people do or celebrate that may be done out of habit or tradition
What is a custom?
Of the five oceans, this one covers the largest area of Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Population
What is human geography
This theme looks at what locations have in common and how they are different from other locations
What is Region
This line of LONGITUDE is jagged but like the prime meridian it runs from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is the International Date Line?
Not my sister's house, it is a phrase used to describe where on the planet a particular place is by describing landmarks or other places nearby
What is relative location?
The four most practiced are Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism
What is Religion?
Religion
What is human geography
This theme explores human and/or physical features of a specific location
What is Place
Not a disease but an imaginary line north of the Equator that marks an area of warm waters and winds.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This is the line that separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere at 0 degrees LONGITUDE
What is the Prime Meridian?
Everything to do with work, money, or exchange of goods and services
What is Economics?