Directions
What are the four cardinal directions?
North, South, East, and West
What are the Earth's 4 Hemispheres?
What is migration?
The movement of people from place to place.
What are the natural features of Earth's surface, such as landforms and bodies or water, known as?
Physical Geography
A political map is a map that shows the borders/boundaries of countries and states. True or False?
True
What continent is EAST of Europe?
Asia
We only live in one hemisphere. True or False?
False
People who lived in a region FIRST, are known as what?
Indigenous People
What is the study of the Earth's physical and cultural features?
Geography
What is a physical map?
A map that shows landforms.
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest are know as what?
Intermediate Directions
What is the imaginary line that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres? (It passes through Greenwich, England)
Prime Meridian
A generalized belief about a group of people, is known as?
A stereotype
The characteristics of a place made by people who live there, such as culture, economy, type of government, and landmarks, is known as?
Human Geography
Who is Gerardus Mercator? What did he do?
He was a cartographer, who created a map projection of the Earth that distorted the size.
If you traveled to Florida from Wisconsin, which direction would you need to go?
South
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole; divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Equator
Name the 3 different reasons that people migrate.
Immigration, Refugee, Forced Migration
The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services, is known as?
Economy
What is the term used to describe when a map or history is focused on the European perspective?
Eurocentric
Draw a compass rose with the 4 cardinal directions and the 4 intermediate directions.
NW N NE
W -- E
SW S SE
Which two hemispheres is the continent Asia in?
Northern and Eastern
Why did countries like England and Spain want to colonize other lands?
Power, Money, and Resources
A characteristic of physical geography is landforms. List 5 examples of landforms.
Mountains, plateau, dune, canyon, hill, island, isthmus, peninsula, coast
What is the difference between Mercator's map projection and Peter's map projection?
Mercator's projection distorted the size and Peter's projection distorted the shape of the map.