The Compass Rose
This direction is usually placed at the top of the Compass Rose.
What is North?
This type of map shows physical features made by humans as well as artificial delineations.
What is a political map?
This Geography Theme tells us the position of something, either on a coordinate grid or in relation to other things.
What is Location?
Often called "The New World" by European Explorers, these two continents are connected by a narrow isthmus (a skinny piece of land)
What are North and South America?
This ocean separates Europe and North America, and is named for a mythical sunken city.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
When looking North, these directions are to your left and right, respectively.
What are West and East?
This type of map traces human behavior.
What is a cultural map?
This Geography Theme describes what a location is like: its physical attributes, human made features, and climate.
What is Place?
This Continent is theorized to have been the starting point for human life. The theory is called Out of it.
What is Africa?
This Ocean is where you might find an Emperor Penguin, if you could stand the severe temperatures.
What is the Southern or Antarctic Ocean?
When looking to the East, this direction is to your right.
What is South?
This type of map shows natural features such as mountain ranges, rivers, and lakes.
What is a physical map?
This Theme of Geography examines the interaction between Humans and a Location.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
These two continents are hardly separated at all. One of them is the largest continent, and the other contains England, France, Germany, and Italy, among other countries.
What are Asia and Europe?
This Ocean is named for an Asian Subcontinent, and it separates Africa from Australia
What is the Indian Ocean?
Texas, the second largest U.S. State, is in this direction from Louisiana.
What is West?
A map showing the average rainfall of different areas with no borders or cities on it is this sort of map.
What is a physical map?
This Geography Theme examines the connections between locations: how they relate to one another and how one might travel between them.
What is Movement?
These two continents are some of the smallest. One contains only a single country on its main landmass, and the other contains no countries at all.
What are Australia and Antarctica?
This Ocean is off the Eastern Coast of China, and contains islands such as Hawaii and Guam.
What is The Pacific Ocean?
When using a Compass Rose, the four Cardinal Directions are North, East, South, and West. Halfway between those are Ordinal directions, named by combining two Cardinal Directions. These are the names of the Ordinal Directions.
What are Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest?
A map showing the average taco consumption of Americans broken down by state would be this kind of map.
What is a cultural map? --or-- What is a culturo-political map?
What is Region?
This theoretical continent is not widely recognized yet, but would consist of the many islands near Australia, which account for a significant amount of the land currently within the Australian Continent.
What is Zealandia?
This Ocean's name comes from the ancient Greek word for bear, and it borders Canada, the United States, Greenland, Russia, Norway, and Finland.
What is the Arctic Ocean?