5 Themes of Geography
Geography
Map Elements
Earth's Movement
The Earth's Surface
100
Where something can be found
What is location
100
Measures the distance north and south of the Equator
What are latitude lines
100
Lists and explains symbols
What is a key
100
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun
What is 365 1/4 days
100
When wind, rain and ice wear down a surface
What is erosion
200
How and why people, goods, and ideas move from place to place
What is movement
200
Measure the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
What are longitude lines
200
Shows directions on a map
What is a compass
200
The length of time it takes for the Earth to complete 1 full rotation on its axis
What is 24 hours
200
Changes in temperature, plants, and chemicals that cause rocks to be broken into smaller pieces
What is weathering
300
Describes a location's physical and cultural features
What is a place
300
What is the latitude line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles
What is the Equator
300
Explains the distance on a map
What is a scale
300
The day of the year with the most amount of sunlight
What is the summer solstice
300
The movement of the continents on the Earth's plates
What is continental drift
400
How people effect the environment or how it effects us
What is interaction
400
Which longitude line stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England
What is the Prime Meridian
400
Indicates the subject of the map
What is a title
400
The day of the year with the least amount of sunlight
What is the winter solstice
400
Explains that continents sit on slow moving plates
What is plate tectonics
500
Used to make comparisons of different areas of the Earth with common characteristics
What is a region
500
The Earth is divided into 4 of them: North, South, East, West
What are Hemispheres
500
We studied 3 types of maps in class; political, physical, and thematic. If political maps show boundaries of countries, states, or cities and physical maps show the landforms and bodies of water of an area. What do thematic maps show?
What is Vegetation, Population, Natural Resources, Population Density, etc.
500
When day and night are of equal length
What is an equinox
500
Thin rocky outer shell of the Earth's suface
What is the crust
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