Vocabulary
5 Themes of Geography
Maps
Potpourri
Class
100
a map maker
What is a cartographer?
100
This is the way people, good, & ideas move from place to place.
What is Movement?
100
This type of map shows borders of areas like countries, states, & cities.
What is a political map?
100
These are imaginary lines that can tell you the exact location on the planet.
What are latitude & longitude?
100
Type of notebook used in the classroom.
What is an Interactive Notebook?
200
These are each half of the globe.
What is a hemisphere?
200
This theme includes how to find a place in a relative &/or absolute manner.
What is Location?
200
This type of map shows landforms (like mountains, rivers, lakes, & oceans).
What is a physical map?
200
Imaginary line at zero meridian used to measure longitude east to west, dividing the earth's east & west halves.
What is the prime meridian?
200
This is the first procedure to do in the classroom.
What is do a warm up?
300
This is a three dimensional representation of the earth.
What is a globe?
300
This theme compares similar economic, political, physical, or human characteristics (features).
What is Region?
300
This type of map shows movements of people, changing borders, & other historical events.
What is a historical map?
300
Imaginary line that encircles the globe, dividing the earth into northern & southern halves.
What is the equator?
300
A date & this MUST be on every page of your ITNB.
What is a page number?
400
This is a representation of natural & man-made features on earth.?
What is a topographic map?
400
This theme refers to the relationship between humans & their surroundings.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
400
Most maps have these two items.
What are country borders & major rivers?
400
The sentence "This island is 64W 16N" refers to which type of location?
What is absolute location?
400
This is the first page of the ITNB & it works as a reference point for all work done in class.
What is a table of contents?
500
This is a way of drawing Earth’s surface by representing a round earth on flat paper
What is a map projection?
500
This themes includes the physical features & cultural characteristics of a location?
What is Place?
500
This tells you what the symbols, lines, & colors on a map mean.
What is a legend?
500
This is the study of the distribution & interaction of physical & human features on earth.
What is Geography?
500
In order to ask a question during class, students must do this first.
What is raise your hand?
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