5 Themes
Where something is on the surface of the Earth (exact or relative)
What is location?
20 Main St. St. Johnsbury Vt
What is address?
These lines run North/ South but measure East/ West.
What is longitude?
The smallest geographical unit.
What is home.
The study of patterns on the Earth's surface.
What is Geography?
How humans change the Earth and the Earth changes humans.
What is interaction?
Vermont is an example of this.
What is a state?
Runs East/ West but measures North/ South.
What is latitude?
The second to smallest geographical unit.
What is Town/ City
The lines that run North/ South but measure East/ West.
What are longitude lines?
How people, products, and ideas get from place to place.
What is movement?
Half of the Globe (Northern half, Southern half, Eastern half, or Western half) Substitute for "half"
What is hemisphere?
A line located at 0 degrees and runs East/ West
What is the Equator?
The 4rth smallest geographical unit.
The name for the action for finding the intersection between longitude and latitude lines.
What is plotting coordinates?
A large area with similar natural and cultural features.
What is region?
One unit larger than a country.
What is a continent?
These latitude or longitude (which one?) lines in coordinates have an E or W next to them.
What are longitude lines?
The largest geographical unit.
What is hemisphere?
The Five themes of Geography.
What are Location, Place, Interaction, Movement, and Region?
What makes a location unique (natural and physical features).
What is place?
4th unit of geographic classification from smallest.
What is state/ province?
The Tropic of Cancer is below or above the equator. (Which one?)
What is below the equator.
The 3rd smallest geographic unit.
What is County.
The mnemonic device for the 5 themes of geography.
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