Vocabulary
Map Skills
Longitude and Latitude
5 Themes of Geography
Maps
100

Geography means

What is to describe the earth?

100

The first thing you look at when examining a map

What is look at the Key and Title?

100

This imaginary line separates the northern and Southern Hemisphere

What is the Equator?

100

This theme of Geography has two types, Absolute and Relative.

What is Location?

100

This type of map shows physical landforms

What is a physical map?

200

Exact place where a geographic feature is located in is 

What is Absolute Location?

200

The part of a map that shows you direction in North, South, East, and West.

What is a compass or compass rose?

200

This imaginary line separates the Eastern and Western hemisphere

What is the Prime Meridian?

200

This theme of Geography looks at how items, people or ideas are transported 

What is movement?

200

This type of map shows man made borders and cities

What is a political map?

300

These locations are at 90 degrees N and 90 degrees South latitude

What are the North and South Pole?

300

A scale shows you what on a map

What are distances between cities?

300

This line of longitude affects the date when crossing it

What is the International Date line?

300

This theme of geography describes similarities between different cities within the same area.

What is region?

300

This type of map focuses on specific information 

What is a thematic map?

400

Someone who makes maps

Who is a Cartographer?

400

To find a city on a map you need to use what 

What are longitude and Latitude lines?

400

These lines of latitude are at 23.5 degrees North and South

What are the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn?

400

This theme of Georaphy talks about how to describe a location

What is place?

400

This type of map shows navigational routes for sailors and pilots

What is a navigational map?

500

Longitude and latitude lines have different names called

What are Parallels and Meridians?

500

The two hemispheres that South America is located in is what

What is the North West hemisphere?

500

For every 1 degree of latitude it is how many miles

What is 69 miles?

500

This theme of Geography Talks about how people manipulate the world around them

What is Human Environment Interaction?

500

This type of map shows the movement of people or goods

What is a flowline map?

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