Maps
Themes of Geography
Latitude and Longitude
Vocabulary
Reading Charts, Graphs, and Maps
100
On a map, what tells us the directions?
What is the compass rose?
100
An exact spot or where a place is in relation to another refers to what theme of geography?
What is location?
100
Latitude runs __________ to ____________ on a map or globe.
What is east to west.
100
The weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
What is the first thing you should look for on a chart or graph?
What is the title?
200
On a map, where do you look to see what certain symbols mean?
What is the key or legend?
200
What theme of geography is described by the exchange of people, goods, and/or ideas from one place to another?
What is movement?
200
Lines of longitude run ____________ to ___________ on a map or globe.
What is north to south.
200
The trees, shrubs, and plant life in an area.
What is vegetation?
200
On a map _________ show the names of cities, landforms, and bodies of water.
What are labels?
300
A type of map that shows countries, states, provinces or other boundaries.
What is a political map?
300
A place or group of places that have human or physical characteristics in common.
What is region?
300
The equator is an example of a line of ________________.
What is latitude.
300
The seven large landmasses on Earth's surface.
What are continents?
300
Used to figure out the distance between two locations on a map.
What is the scale?
400
What type of map shows certain information about a place or a region?
What is a thematic map?
400
How people interact with their environment.
What is human environmental interaction.
400
The Tropic of Cancer is an example of a line of _____________
What is latitude.
400
A naturally formed feature on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
400
What is the second thing we look at when reading a map or graph?
What is the key or legend?
500
What type of map would you use if you were looking for the Rocky Mountains?
What is a physical map?
500
The description of a location.
What is place?
500
The Prime Meridian is an example of a line of ____________.
Longitude
500
Half of the Earth.
What is hemisphere?
500
Look at the map on A25. What does the color purple on the map indicate?
Who are the Phoenicians?
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