The Worldʻs Geography
The study of Earth and its people is called this.
What is geography?
This is a round model of Earth that shows continents and oceans on Earthʻs curved surface.
What is a globe?
This map feature tells you the subject of the map.
What is the title?
Each half of the globe is called this.
What is a hemisphere?
This theme answers the question, "Where is it?"
What is location?
Scientists who use maps and globe to measure and describe Earch are called these.
What are geographers?
This type of location describes where a place is by explaining what places are near it.
What is a relative location?
This map feature shows north, south, east, and west.
What is the compass rose?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This theme asks, "What is it like?" and includes both physical and human characteristics.
What is place?
Earth is divided into seven large landmasses called these.
What are continents?
This type of location describes the exact position of a place on Earth.
What is absolute location?
This feature lists and explains the symbols and colors used on a map.
What is a legend or key?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This theme compares places by asking, "How are places similar or different?"
What is Region?
This is the largest continent in the world.
What is Asia?
When Earthʻs curved surface is flattened onto a map, this can affect its appearance.
What is distorted or distortion?
This map feature can be used to determine the distance between two locations.
What is the scale?
The United States is located in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
This theme examines how people, goods, and ideas travel from one location to another.
What is Movement?
The names of all seven continents.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?
These map features give the names of cities, landforms, and bodies of water.
What are labels?
Geographers use intersecting latitude and longitude lines as a system to find an exact point on Earth.
What is the geographic grid? Or what are the coordinates?
This theme examines how people depend on, adapt to, and modify the physical environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?