Vocabulary
Maps
The 5 themes
Wild cards
Maps (visual)
100
This is a piece of land that connects two other pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
100
This type of map shows features like mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, and plateaus.
What is a physical map?
100
These are the 5 themes of geography.
What is Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?
100
This gives the 4 cardinal directions on a map
What is a compass rose?
100
This is the area highlighted
What is North America?
200
This is the study of people, places, and the environment and how these different things interact with one another.
What is geography?
200
This is a map that you have in your mind, but not written down.
What is a mental map?
200
Define region
What is an area grouped together by similar characteristics or features?
200
This is human geography.
What is the study of people, their movement, culture, and how they adapt to and effect the earth?
200
This ocean is highlighted
What is the Artic ocean?
300
This is a box on a map that shows what the symbols on the map represent. (Give both names)
What is the map legend or key?
300
This on a map calculates distance.
What is a scale?
300
Define movement
What is people, goods, and/ or ideas shifting from one place to another place?
300
These are the areas of social studies
What are History, Geography, Government, Economy, and Culture?
300
This is the area that is highlighted
What is the Atlantic ocean?
400
A map maker
What is a Cartographer?
400
This type of "map" is the least distorted because the world is not flattened out for it.
What is a globe?
400
What is the difference between location and place?
Location is where you are in the world (Sanford). Place is a description of what is around you (Farms, factories, golf courses, forests, etc.).
400
This is physical geography.
What is an area of geography that focuses on natural features, the environment, animals, and ecosystems?
400
This ocean is highlighted
What is the Indian ocean?
500
What are the imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator and measure north to south?
What are latitude lines?
500
These are the 5 different types of maps.
What are physical, political, thematic, mental, and a globe?
500
Give an example of each of the 5 themes of geography
Where something is?
The description of somewhere
An area with similar characteristics
How people interact with the environment
The shift of people, ideas, or goods
500
What is the difference between relative and absolute location?
Relative location is the general location and absolute location uses latitude and longitude lines.
500
These are the two continents highlighted
What are Asia (yellow) and Antartica (green)?