5 Themes of Geography
Continents and Oceans
Parts of a Map
Landforms
Odds and Ends
100
This theme focuses on the Absolute and the Relative
What is Location?
100
The number of continents.

What are 7?

100

The 4 cardinal directions...

What are North, East, South, West?
100
a landmass surrounded on all sides by water
What is an island?
100

This runs halfway around the world at 0 degrees latitude.  It separates the northern and southern halves of the earth.

What is the equator

200
This theme is defined by similar characteristics
What is region?
200

Name 4 of the continents

North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Antarctica
200
gives directions on a map
What is the compass rose
200
body of freshwater that is surrounded by land
What is a lake?
200

This term is "half of the earth"

What is hemisphere?

300
Imports and Exports is an example of this theme.
What is movement?
300

The number of Oceans.

What are 5?

300
tells the meaning of symbols used on a map
What is the map key
300
This is a raised hill that spews lava and ash
What is a volcano
300

Imaginary lines that run east and west but measure the distance north and south of the equator.

What are lines of latitude?

400

When I describe Slater Middle School, I think of it as an old building with lots of students where learning happens.  This is an example of...

What is place?

400

Name 3 of the Earth's oceans.

Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean

400

tells what the map is about

What is the map title

400
this covers 2/3 of the earth
What is the ocean
400

Imaginary lines that run north and south but measure the distance east and west of the prime meridian.

What are lines of longitude?

500
The building of the Hoover Dam is an example of what theme?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
500
The largest continent in the world with the most people is...

What is Asia?

500

The part of a map that measures distance.

What is the map scale?

500
low lying land between hills or mountains
What is a valley
500
this often happens to the shape of the world when you try to make it into a map
What is distortion
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