Key Terms
Five Themes
World Geography
Map Skills
Miscellaneous
100
Geographers identify these imaginary east-west circles, or lines around the globe
What are lines of latitude
100
Geographers learn this by studying the theme of human-environment interaction.
What is how people and the environment affect each other?
100
These two basic questions guide geographers in their work.
What is Where are things located and why are they there?
100
A globe is more accurate than a map because a globe can show this.
What are the true shapes of the continents and the oceans?
100
This is one way the environment affects humans.
What are natural disasters (ie hurricanes, tornados, floods), the weather,etc?
200
This imaginary line circles the globe halfway between the North and South poles
What is the Equator
200
This is pinpointing an exact location on the earth using coordinates.
What is absolute location?
200
latitude and longitude lines help geographers identify this.
What is absolute location?
200
Flat maps were invented because it was impossible to make a globe that was this.
What is complete enough to use and convenient enough to carry?
200
These are two characteristics that could classify an area as a region.
What are cultures, religion, any physical features, etc.?
300
This is the unit of measure used to determine an absolute location on a map or globe
What is degree?
300
This is one way to describe the human characteristics of a place.
What is population?
300
One result of the Earth's tilt is that the Earth has this.
What is seasons?
300
Flat maps distort shapes of landmasses because of this.
What is the Earth is round not flat?
300
This is the study of the Earth?
What is geography?
400
A change in the accuracy of shapes and distances
What is distortion?
400
This describes location using the cardinal directions north, south, east, or west.
What is relative location?
400
The Antarctic Circle is closest to this pole.
What is South Pole?
400
A solid black line on a political map signifies this.
What are boundary lines?
400
These are the six major lines of latitude.
What are the Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, The Arctic Circle, and The Antarctic Circle?
500
The section of a map that explains symbols for the map features.
What is key?
500
This is an example how ideas move in the theme movement.
What is the radio, Internet, TV, skype, texting, etc?
500
The Tropic of Capricorn is and the Tropic of Cancer form the boundries for this climate zone
What is the Tropic Zone?
500
These are at least three major parts of a map
What are a compass rose, key/legend, scale, title, grid lines, cardinal directions
500
A line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian
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