5 Themes of Geography
Parts of a Map
Maps
Culture
Vocabulary
100
Latitude & longitude coordinates identify this
What is absolute locations
100
Lines measuring north and south
What is lattitude?
100
A flattened map that distorts the true shape of the earth and its features.
What is a Mercator Projection map?
100
It consists of beliefs, customs, laws, art and way of living
What is culture?
100
The conflict between people's desires and limited resources
What is scarcity?
200
People interact and change environment.
What is human-environment interaction
200
relative distance on the map to the real world
What is the scale?
200
Topographical map
What is a physical map?
200
Shared languages, tools, food or clothing
What are cultural traits?
200
collection of maps in a book
What is an Atlas
300
2 characteristics used to describe a place.
What are human and physical characteristics?
300
Explains what symbols represent on a map
What is the map key?
300
A spherical representation of the earth
What is a globe?
300
An area of the world where people share similar beliefs, history and launguages.
What is a cultural region?
300
inaccurate in terms of shape & size
What is distortion?
400
5 themes of geography
What are Movement, Region, Human Environment, Location, Place
400
It tells the cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
400
Shows boundaries, countries and states.
What is the political map?
400
When decisions in one part of the world affects another.
What is interdependence?
400
mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
500
landforms, bodies of water, and ecosystem
What are physical characteristics?
500
Zero degrees longitutde
What is the prime meridian?
500
This map might show population distribution
What is a thematic map?
500
A legal member of a country who has embraced its laws and customs
What is a citizen?
500
person who studies physical features and people
Who is a geographer?
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