5 Themes of Geography
The 5 themes of geography
What is Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Place.
Shows where north, south, east, and west is on a map.
What is a Compass Rose?
A shape on the planets surface.
What is a Landform?
This imaginary line that is 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
The 2 major types of geography.
What are Human and Physical?
Where something is. 2 types: Relative and Absolute.
What is Location?
Explains symbols used on the map.
What is the Key/Legend?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
This imaginary line that is 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The Cardinal Directions.
What is N,S,E,W?
An area that shares common characteristics.
What is Region?
Map that shows human made divisions or features of the earth.
What is a Political Map?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move apart.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
Imaginary lines measuring distances North & South of its major line.
What are the Lines of Latitude?
The massive supercontinent that used to cover the earth, meaning "All Lands" or "Whole Earth."
What is Pangea?
Samira takes a trip to Europe with her family. She notices that fashions in Europe are very different so she decides to send a picture message showing and communicating to her some of the crazy outfits.
What is Movement?
A map has a scale of 1 inch = 300 miles. Two cities are 3 inches apart on the map. They are this far apart in real life.
What is 900 Miles?
This type of plate boundary occurs when two plates grind against each other and release pressure.
What is a Transform Boundary?
Imaginary lines measuring distances East & West of its major line.
What are Lines of Longitude?
The Earth divided into half-spheres.
What is a Hemisphere?
Nicole is from Los Angeles and Colleen is from St. Paul. Nicole thinks Los Angeles is better than St. Paul because it has lots of celebrities, and is near the Pacific Ocean.
What is Place?
A geographer wants to study where mountains, rivers, and deserts are located. This type of map would be the most useful.
What is a Physical Map?
When 2 plates collide, the denser plate can sink beneath the secondary plate. This process is called this.
What is Subduction?
A ship is located at 15° S, 45° E. It is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres?
Area in the pacific ocean where many tectonic plates meet, causing more volcanoes and earthquakes to occur than any other place.
What is the Ring of Fire?