Imaginary lineswhich form a grid that geographers use to locate places on the Earth's surface
What are Longitude and Latitude?
100
A type of map that shows man made features like borders and boundary lines.
What is a Political Map?
100
When people move from one place and settle in another
What is Migration?
100
"The world in spatial terms" asks this fundamental question about a place
What is "Where is it?"
100
If one were to hike cross country, this would be the best type of map to use
What is a Physical Map?
200
The Latitude line in the center of the Earth that divide the Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
200
The elevation of a mountain range would be shown on this type of map
What is a physical map?
200
When people share values, beliefs, and behaviors, they have this in common
What is Culture?
200
An example of this element of geography would be people cutting down trees to make paper
What is Environment and Society?
200
A Volcano erupting over thousands of years on the ocean floor and eventually breaking the surface of the sea and forming an island is an example of this element of geography.
What are Physical Systems?
300
True or False: Sailors, pilots, drivers, hikers, walkers, and astronauts are ALL examples of people who would use longitude and latitude in one form or another.
What is TRUE
300
Using ratios, this part of a map can help show approximate distances between two points.
What is a scale?
300
True or False: Eating vegetables makes you a part of the same culture with other people that eat vegetables
What is FALSE
300
This element focuses on how humans have shaped our world; why they live in one place and not another
What are Human Systems?
300
A friend visits her French friend in Paris and then decides to learn the French language, is an example of this
What is Cultural Diffusion?
400
Line of Longitude that divides the Western and Eastern hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
This part of a map shows features represented on the map and what they represent
What is a legend (or key)?
400
Religion, Language, Customs, and Government are all parts of this
What is Culture?
400
This element examines how things in an environment react to eachother (Volcanoes, food chains, Earthquakes)
What are Physical Systems?
400
Examining why early humans tended to settle near water would fall under this element of geography
What are Human Systems?
500
Using longitude and latitude coordinates, one can find a specific place, called this
What is absolute location?
500
This type of special-purpose maps uses color to represent data variables
What is a Cloropleth?
500
When one culture shares their beliefs with another culture, this occurs
What is Cultural Diffusion
500
Describes what a place is like
What is Places and Regions?
500
On this specific item, I make the most populated areas red, and the least populated areas green.