5 Themes
Directions/Continents
Latitude/Longitude
Definitions
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List the 5 Themes of Geography

Location, Place, HEI, Movement, Region

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What are the 4 Cardinal Directions?

N, S, E, W

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What is the imaginary line of latitude that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

Equator

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What is geography?

The study of the earth

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What are the 2 types of location and explain.

Absolute and Relative

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What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?

NE, NW, SE, SW

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How are lines of latitude and longitude measured?

degrees

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What is the equator?

0 latitude that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres

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What theme is this an example of...oil brought to US from Saudi Arabia?

Movement

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What are the 4 hemispheres?

Northern

Southern

Eastern

Western

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What is the main line of longitude that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

Prime Meridian

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What is the Prime Meridian?

Main line of longitude 0 - divides earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.

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What is the theme of PLACE?

Identifying monuments, cultures, people, etc

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What are the 4 main oceans?

Atlantic

Pacific

Indian

Arctic

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What are the synonyms for latitude and longitude?

parallel and meridian

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What happens to a place on a map when it is made flat?

It becomes distorted.

500

What is the theme of Region and give an example.

Places that have similar features - orange groves in Florida.

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What are the 7 continents?

N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa

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What are the coordinates of Uzbekistan?

40N 65E

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What is longitude?

Imaginary lines that run north to south but measure east to west of the Prime Meridian.

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