Graphs
5 Themes of Geography
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This graph is named after its round shape.
What is a circle graph?
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Areas that share at least one common characteristic.
What are regions?
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The 4 Cardinal Directions.
What are North, East, South, and West?
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A three dimensional model of the Earth.
What is a Globe?
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Directions between the Cardinal Directions. (Northeast, Southeast, etc...)
What are Intermediate Directions?
200
This graph uses symbols (cars, people, etc...) to represent amounts.
What is a pictograph?
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People, ideas, and goods traveling from one area to another.
What is movement?
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This explains what the symbols on a map represent.
What is a Map Key?
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Measured in degrees North or South of the Equator.
What is Latitude?
200
Pilots fly these routes. They are the shortest route between two places on the Earth's surface, but look curved on a map.
What are Great Circle Routes?
300
This graph combines a line graph and a bar graph to show climate in a specific area.
What is a climograph?
300
How and why people change their surroundings.
What is Human/Environment Interaction?
300
Shows you where the cardinal directions are on the map.
What is a Compass Rose?
300
Measured in degrees East or West of the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
300
Graphs have a horizontal and vertical one of these.
What is an Axis?
400
The most useful type of graph for showing changes over time.
What is a line graph?
400
Where something is.
What is Location?
400
Shows length of distances represented on a map.
What is a Scale Bar?
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Half of the Earth.
What is a Hemisphere?
400
These can show steps in a process or label parts of something.
What are Diagrams?
500
The most useful graph for comparing quantities.
What is a bar graph?
500
Characteristics that make an area unique.
What is Place?
500
Lines that connect points of equal elevation on a map.
What are Contour Lines?
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Method for displaying the Earth on a flat surface.
What are Projections?
500
Cutaway diagram showing changes in elevation of land.
What is an Elevation Profile?
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