Vocabulary
Themes of geography
Maps
Studying the Past
Creating Maps
100
A large landmass
What is a continent
100
The way place, goods and ideas go from place to place
What is movement
100
These are the 7 continents
What are Africa, Asia, Antartica, Austrailia, Europe, North America, South America
100
This is an object made by a human
What is an artifact
100
GPS is an acronym meaning this
What is Global Positioning System
200
Either of two halves of the earth
What is a hemisphere
200
How we change or adapt to out environment
What is interaction
200
These are the 5 major oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern
200
Studying a people's language is an example of this
What is cultural anthropology
200
Geographers and historians can add and subtract layers to study a problem using this technology
What is Geographic Information System
300
Map Making
What is cartography
300
Answers where is it
What is Place
300
This line of latitude goes through 23 degrees South
What is the Tropic of Capricorn
300
Ancient Mayan city rediscovered in 1905
What is Cancuen
300
Uses 32 satellites to detect your exact location (developed first for the military
What is GPS
400
A work produced about an event by someone who was not actually there
What is a secondary source
400
Area of earths surface with distinctive characteristics
What is region
400
The north pole is at this degree latitude
What is 90 degrees North
400
Studying the different skull sizes of early humans is an example of this
What is physical anthropology
400
Ancient Greek geographer who made maps more accurate
Who is Ptolemy
500
Recovery and study of physical evidence from the past
What is archaeology
500
Answers what it is like
What is location
500
There is this many degrees of longitude lines on our globe
What is 360 degrees
500
This is the final step in archaeology
What is drawing conclusions
500
weather satellite that orbits the speed of the earth so it gathers constant data on one area.
What is GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
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