Vocabulary
What is the definition of Geography?
The study of its earth and its people.
What is at the top of the map that tells us what the map is about?
What is a title?
What type of map shows us states, countries and cities?
What are the cardinal directions?
North East South and West
Which theme of geography can give the exact or relative area something is?
What is absolute and relative location?
What is a continent?
A large landmass that is surrounded by an ocean?
What is the part of the map that measures miles?
What is a scale?
What type of map shows us mountains, rivers, plains and deserts etc?
What is a physical map?
What are the intermediate directions?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest.
When we describe a particular city, country, state or area it is known as?
What is place?
What is an ocean?
What is the part of the map that tells us direction?
What is a compass or compass rose?
What type of map shows us climate and different rain, snow, sleet as well as other weather patterns?
What is a climate map?
They measure north and south?
What is called when people ideas and goods move from one place to another?
What is movement?
What is a map?
a flat image of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
What is called where there are lines that are flat and long on a map?
What are latitude and longitude lines?
What do you call a map that focus on the population density in a country, state or area?
How do longitude lines measure?
They measure east and west?
what is called when the environment impacts us as well as humans impacting the environment?
What is Human Environment Interaction?
What is the purpose of a compass?
To show us directions.
What is a legend or key?
What is a resource map?
What are the zero degree latitude and longitude line?
When we are talking about a larger area, whether it is multiple states or countries that have common factors such as language, weather, religion etc, this is called?
What is region?