Themes of Geography
Human Environment Interaction, place, movement, regions, location.
This type of location tells you exactly where something is.
What is absolute location?
The line that divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
This map shows how many people live in a certain area.
What is population map?
Name the regions of North Carolina.
What is the Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain? (Tidewater is connected to the Coastal Plain)
The theme of human-environment interaction explores the relationship between these two things.
What is humans and the environment?
This type of location tells you where something is in relation to something else.
What is relative location?
The primary of longitude dividing the world into halves.
What is the prime meridian?
This map shows the climate and weather of a region.
The landscape of the Piedmont allowed easy travel for settlers moving in which cardinal direction?
This theme explores how people, resources, and ideas move.
What is movement?
Horizontal lines show how far north or south a location is from the equator.
What is latitude?
The way people, things, animals, and ideas move.
This map shows the location of Native American Tribes.
What is tribal map?
This region has many wetlands and sounds.
This theme includes physical and human characteristics.
Vertical lines showing how far a location is east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
One of the ways that the world is divided, based on what time it is in a given location.
What is time zones?
This map shows natural features of an area like mountains, streams, and rivers.
What is physical map?
Which region of North Carolina contains many mineral deposits?
What is the Piedmont Region?
The Earth is organized into these to make it easier to study.
What are regions?
You can tell the distance between two places on a map by looking at this.
What is the scale?
Imaginary line on Earth’s surface, located halfway around the world from the Prime Meridian, defining the boundary between one day and the next.
International Date Line
This map shows the borders of regions, countries, states, and cities.
What is a political map?
Mt. Mitchell is in this region of North Carolina.
What is Mountain?