The theme that you find where a country is "absolutely" or "relatively" situated.
What is location?
100
Derived from a Greek word meaning "writing about" or describing," the earth. It is the study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
What is Geography?
100
North Carolina is bordered by Virginia on the north, South Carolina and Georgia on the south, and Tennessee on the west.
What is LOCATION (RELATIVE) ?
100
The study of populations-including such topics as birth, marriage, migration, and death.
What is DEMOGRAPHY?
200
Shows where the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) lie on the map
What is Compass Rose?
200
The way goods, ideas, and communication flow through a country.
What is Movement?
200
Imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North and South poles. Divides the world into two hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200
DAILY DOUBLE: THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF ROADS, BUILDINGS, SWIMMING POOLS, MASSIVE IRRIGATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
What is HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
200
The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
What is POPULATION DENSITY?
300
Tells the user about the size of a map in relation to the size of the real world by giving the ration between distances on the map and actual distances on the earth.
What is a Scale?
300
The distinctive and distinguishing physical and human characteristics of locales
What is Place?
300
Changing elevation of the land, represented either by shading or by changing colors
What is Relief?
300
ATLANTA'S TRANSPORTATION LINKS HAVE ATTRACTED MANUFACTURERS AND COMPANIES THAT HANDLE DISTRIBUTION TASKS SUCH AS WAREHOUSING AND TRUCKING.
What is MOVEMENT?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: People who move into a country and people who leave the country to live elsewhere.
What are immigrants and emigrants?
400
Tells the user about the symbols used on the map, also known as the key
What is the Legend?
400
People adapt to Their Environment, modify Their Environment, depend on Their Environment
What is Human Environment Interaction?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: LOCATION IS 0 DEGREES ON THE MAP AND RUNS THROUGH THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY IN THIS BRITISH TOWN
What is THE PRIME MERIDIAN AND GREENWICH ENGLAND?
400
MEXICO POSSESSES TWO MAIN MOUNTAIN RANGES, THE SIERRA MADRE AND THE SIERRA OCCIDENTAL.
What is PLACE?
400
This term can be defined by what people make, such as food, and clothing and also in nonmaterial ways such as religion, language, spiritual beliefs, and patterns of behavior.
What is CULTURE?
500
Type of map that shows state and national boundaries and capital cities.
What is a Political Map?
500
Shows what certain areas have in Common such as, political make-up, landforms, agricultural activities, and cultural traditions.
What is Region?
500
A CIRCLE OF VOLCANOES SURROUNDING THE PACIFIC OCEAN
What is THE RING OF FIRE?
500
AN EXAMPLE OF THIS THEME IS THE AMAZON river basin in South America. Countries in this area are drained by the Amazon River.
What is REGION?
500
The process of adapting traits from other cultures is known as this