Themes of Geography
This is where a place is and what it is near.
What is LOCATION?
The salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the surface of the earth
What is an OCEAN?
the main landmasses on earth.
What is a continent?
Shows distances on a map
What is the SCALE?
Large areas of land that are mostly flat.
What is a plain?
This refers to the natural and human characteristics of a location.
What is PLACE?
A large body of water that has land around part or all of it.
What is a SEA?
Land that is controlled by a single government.
What is a country?
Shows you the four cardinal directions (North, East, South, West) in relation to the objects on the map.
What is a compass?
Land that is almost entirely surrounded by water, but is attached to a larger land area.
What is a peninsula?
This refers to how people and the environment relate to each other.
What is HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
An inland body of standing water usually fresh water, but not always.
What is a LAKE?
Land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent
What is an island?
The lines that cut from North to South on the globe.
What are LONGITUDE lines?
This ocean was just added to a map.
What is the SOUTHERN ocean?
This refers thaw ideas goods and people are spread from place to place.
What is MOVEMENT?
A large natural flow of water that crosses an area of land and goes into an ocean, a lake, etc.
What is a RIVER?
Landform that rises high above the surrounding terrain in a limited area.
What is a mountain?
The lines that cut from East to West on the globe.
What are LATITUDE lines?
The spread of people, goods, and ideas.
What is MOVEMENT?
This refers to how areas are similar or different from each other.
What is REGION?
Thee ocean that borders North America on the west coast.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A raised area of land that is flat on top, sometimes found in mountainous areas.
What is a plateau?
The line that cuts the Earth in half horizontally.
What is the EQUATOR?
The landform that the San Francisco bay area is on.
What is a peninsula?