5 Themes of Geography
Latitude & Longitude
Continents & Oceans
Map Types
Map Skills
100

The way people good and ideas move from place to another

What is Movement?
100
It's the imaginary lines on the earth that give us time zones

What is Longitude lines?

100

Smallest Continent

What is Australia?

100

This tells us about the past

What is History Maps?

100

This component helps tells us the relationship of distance on the map and real life.

What is a Map scale?

200

Where something is found on the Earth, either in absolute or relative

What is Location?

200

Run east and west, but tell us North and South 

What is latitude lines?

200

Largest Continent

What is Asia?

200

This map tells us imaginary lines

What is political maps?

200

This component is on ever map and tells what we are looking at

What is a Map Title?

300

Areas of the world that have similar characteristics

What is Region?

300

0 degrees in latitude, and 0 degrees in longitude

What is the Equator & Prime Meridian 

300

The names of the 5 Oceans

what are Pacific, Atlantic, Southern (Antarctic), Indian, Arctic?

300

This map shows land features

What is physical map?

300

This component orients us to the map

What is a Compass Rose?

400

Describes the physical and human characteristics that make a location unique

What is Place?

400

The Great Circles of Latitude, Climate, Zones

(Recreate the Diagram on the board)(include degrees, and names)

400

The two continents that share a long border

What are Asia & Europe?

400

This map shows elevation and is used for hiking

Topographic Maps

400

This component decodes the map

What is a Map key (or legend)?

500

List the five themes of geography

Location

Region

Place

Human/Environment interaction

Movement

500

The coordinates of Tokoyo, Japan

36° N, 140° E

500
Largest to smallest Continents

What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia?

500

This map can tell us about temperatures and or precipitation of a region

What is Climate Map?

500

All four map components, and with the underline component being the one that will be on every map

Title

Map Key (or legend)

Map Scale

Compass Rose

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