5 Themes
The study of Earth
What is Geography?
This tool is used to find distances between places on a map.
What is a map scale?
The amount of time it takes Earth to make one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
What are core, mantle, and crust?
Day to day condition of the air and sky.
What is weather?
East-West lines used for absolute location
What are lines of latitude?
Most accurate way to show oceans and continents.
What is a globe?
Imaginary line that tilts Earth.
What is an axis?
Removal of pieces of rock.
What is erosion?
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
Cardinal Directions
What are north, south, east, and west?
A map symbol showing the cardinal directions.
One circle around the sun.
What is revolution?
A huge block of Earth's crust.
What is a plate?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
Theme that studies how Earth and its people affect each other.
What is Human-environment interaction?
A map on a flat surface.
What is a projection?
Latitude zone that has freezing temperatures all year.
What are high latitudes or polar latitude zone?
Mountains, plains, and plateaus are types of these.
What are landforms?
Intense wind and rain storms that form in the tropics.
What are tropical cyclones or hurricanes?
What are regions?
Loss of accuracy on maps.
What is distortion?
The sun provides Earth with these two things.
What are heat and light?
Amount of Earth cover by water.
What is 70%?
Earth's climate is affected by these 4 things.
What are latitude, landforms, wind, and water?