Map Terms
Themes of Geography
Physical
Geography
Human
Geography
Hodge Podge
100
This type of map will show mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
What is a physical map?
100
This type of location is exact using longitude and latitude
What is absolute location?
100
These types of features are the focus
What are physical features?
100
Focuses on people's relationships with each other and the surrounding environment
What is human geography?
100
Half the earth
What is a hemisphere?
200
This will list and explain the symbols, lines, and colors on a map
What is a key or legend?
200
The theme which refers to the shifting of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another
What is Movement?
200
This feature is the expected pattern of weather in a place during the course of a year
What is climate?
200
The expected weather pattern of a region
What is climate?
200
The cardinal directions
What are north, south, east, and west?
300
Land surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
300
This theme refers to the physical and and human characteristics that make one area different from another
What is Place?
300
This physical feature is the how hot or cold the air is at any particular time
What is temperature?
300
When humans misuse their environment, this happens
What is pollution?
300
The southern boundary of the Tropics
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
This shows the ratio between a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on the earth
What is a map scale?
400
Refers to shared characteristics such as political division, climate, language, culture, etc.
What is Region?
400
Another word for "plant life"
What is vegetation?
400
Two themes of geography which apply to human geography
What human-environment interaction and movement?
400
You need longitude and latitude to determine this
What is absolute location?
500
A line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England, and measures 0 degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
500
Refers to ways people interact with their surroundings such as cutting down a tree, or building a dam, or even sitting in the sun!
What is Human - Environment Interaction?
500
Things found in nature that are valuable or useful to humans
What are natural resources?
500
The 3 R's people do to protect their environment
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
500
4 aspects of physical geography
What are vegetation, climate, land, and resources?
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