Map Skills
An imaginary line that runs around the center of Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
These are the two main branches of geography.
What are human and physical geography?
This element of geography is most related to the theme of human-environment interaction.
What is environment and society?
The theme of geography that describes where something is.
What is location?
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography?
Imaginary lines on Earth that run between the North and South Poles.
What are lines of longitude?
A weatherman would fall under this branch of geography.
What is meteorology?
This element focuses on the physical and human characteristics of places.
What is places and regions?
The theme of geography that describes the features that make a site unique.
What is place?
A spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
The measure of degrees for both the Prime Meridian and the Equator.
What is 0 degrees?
A geographer who studies economics, politics, and city life would be categorized under this main branch of geography.
What is human geography?
The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement are a part of this essential element of geography.
What is human systems?
Areas that share common characteristics.
What are regions?
A place's ___________________ is all the human and physical features that make it unique.
What is landscape?
Tells you what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend?
A geographer who studies landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants would be studying this type of geography.
What is physical geography?
The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface fall under this essential element of geography.
What is physical systems?
This theme looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement?
A field that studies people and the relationships among them.
What is social science?
The line that separates the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
A map-maker would fall under this branch of geography.
What is cartography?
The six essential elements of geography are human systems, physical systems, environment and society, places and regions, and these one other elements.
What is the world in spatial terms?
This theme examines the many ways in which people interact with their environments.
What is human-environment interaction?
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is a region?