Five Themes
The way goods, people, and ideas travel
Movement
Water that flows in one direction
river
Something man-made or natural, that is famous. Example: Eiffel Tower in France
East
What are the names of the statues on Rapa Nui?
Moai
The human or physical characteristics of a town, city, etc.
Place
Ocean
A large area of land on one plate. There are seven on Earth.
continent
About how long was the silk road (in miles)?
4,000
How did people get to Easter Island?
Canoes/ boats
Where on earth something is
Location
An area between two mountains or large hills
Valley
The lines on a map which show how far north or south a place is
Latitude
This tells us what the symbols on a map mean.
legend/key
People on Rapa Nui mostly ate this as their food source
fish
A place as part of a larger area
Region
An area by the sea with high cliffs and water flowing between. These are common in the country of Norway.
fjord
Study of the Earth and people's place on it and interactions with it.
Geography
All maps are projections. We use the Mercator Projection usually. What is a map projection (or why do we use these?)
Because the earth is round. A projection shows the earth flat.
Today, Easter Island's soil is eroded. What does this mean?
The rain washed it away becasue the people cut down the trees.
The way that people and natural forces affect each other.
Human-environmental Interactions
A group of islands
archipelago
Related to the way people organize, especially with goverments.
political
What was the name of the disease that came to Europe through the Silk Road?
Black Death
After Europeans arrived in the 1600s, the people of Rapa Nui had to resort to cannibalism. What is cannibalism?
Eating people