Map Skills
The symbol on a map shows the four main directions (north, south, east, west)
What is a Compass Rose
Name one of the 5 themes of geography
What is..
Movement
Region
Human Environment
Location
Place
The number of continents in the world.
What is seven?
Name the PHYSICAL characteristics
A. Mountains and river
B. Houses and road
C. Bridge and buildings
What is A- mountains and rivers
Historians use this to show a series of events.
What is a timeline?
The imaginary lines that tells how far north or south a place is from the Equator?
What is latitude?
This theme of geography describes where a place is compared to other places.
What is Location?
The number of oceans in the world.
What is five?
This is an example of HUMAN characteristics
A. Mountains and trees
B. River and grass
C. Houses and road
What is C- houses and roads?
Putting things in order as they happened.
What is chronological order?
The imaginary lines that tells how far east or west something is from the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
This theme of geography looks at natural features (like rivers, mountains) and human features (like buildings) of a place.
What is Place?
Name 3 of the continents
What is North America, South America, Antartica, Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe?
A location described using nearby places, directions, or distance.
What is relative location?
This type of source is an object made by people from the past that helps us learn about history (for example, pottery or tools)
What is a primary source?
This term describes the exact point on Earth given by coordinates of latitude and longitude
What is Absolute Location?
This theme asks how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is Movement?
The largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The exact location given by coordinates of latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
This source interprets or analyzes events after they happened such as textbooks or biographies.
What is a secondary source?
Describing a place as "3 miles north of the school”.
What is Relative Location?
The following is an example of human environment interaction.
A. 🏔️ Mountains
B. 🏗️ A bridge built across a river
C. 🌊 An ocean
What is B. A bridge built across a river?
One of theses is NOT an Ocean.
Atlantic, Southern, Antartica, Pacific, Indian
What is Antartica?
This is an example is ADAPTING to the environment?
A. 🧥 Person wearing a heavy winter coat in snow
B. 🌳 A forest
C. 🏢 An office building
What is A- person wearing a heavy winter coat in the snow?
You find a letter from 1850 and a textbook from 1990 about the same event. Which is the primary source and which is the secondary source?
Letter from 1850 is primary
Textbook from 1990 is secondary