Vocabulary
Longitude/Latitude
Map Terms
5 Themes of Geography
This and That
100
A round model of the Earth
What is a globe?
100
0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
100
This tells what the symbols on a map mean
What is the key?
100
There are two types of this theme: relative and absolute
What is location?
100
located at 90 degrees South
What is the South Pole?
200
The latitude line in the middle of the Earth
What is the equator?
200
0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
This tells what the map is about
What is the title?
200
A truck driving goods from one place to another
What is movement?
200
Geographers ask this many questions
What are two?
300
79 degrees south and 20 degrees east is an example of this
What is absolute location?
300
Lines that are measured north and south of the equator.
What are latitude lines?
300
This shows direction on a map
What is a compass rose?
300
New England
What is region?
300
Latitude lines are also called
What are parallel lines?
400
Longitude and latitude are measured in these.
What are degrees?
400
Located at 90 degrees North
What is the North Pole
400
This shows how much distance on a map represents a given distance on land
What is the scale bar?
400
Throwing trash into the river.
What is human-environment interaction?
400
Each half of the Earth is called
What is a hemisphere?
500
"Holyoke is 90 miles west of Boston" is an example of this.
What is relative location?
500
The city in which the Prime Meridian runs through in England
What is Greenwich?
500
This tells the height above sea level
What is elevation?
500
Very flat land.
What is place?
500
Name the two questions geographers ask
Where are things located? Why are they there?
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