Important Vocabulary
Elements of Geography
Important Facts
Mapping the Earth
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100
Compass Rose
What shows the four cardinal directions on a map.
100
Human Systems
What is the element of geography that examines people's use of the Earth and their impact on it through movement, settlement, occupation, and other human activities?
100
North and South Poles
What is where all lines of longitude meet?
100
Photographs produced by satellites that enable you to see patterns on the Earth's surface.
What is Aerial Photographs?
100
Longitude lines run
What is north and south?
200
Scale
What is the relationship between distances on a map?
200
World in Spatial Terms
What is the element of geography that focuses on the location of places?
200
Physical Map
What shows the Earth's natural features such as landforms?
200
A round model that lets you see the Earth's entire surface
What is a globe?
200
Latitude lines run
What is east and west?
300
Relative Location
What describes one place in relation to another?
300
Environment & Society
What is the element that focuses on the interaction between the physical environment and people? This interaction affects people, culture, and environment.
300
Elevation Map
What shows the height of land above sea level?
300
Flat drawings of the earth
What is a map?
300
The Title of a map
What is the most important thing to read on a map?
400
Map Key / Legend
What tells you what each symbol stands for on a map?
400
Uses of Geography
What is element that identifies how people use geographic tools and technologies in their daily lives?
400
Historical Map
What shows information about the past or where past events took place?
400
Lines that measure how far north or south places are from the equator
What are latitude or parallel lines?
400
A political map shows the border of one or more nations by
What are lines or colors?
500
Locator
What tells us where in the world the subject of the main map is located?
500
Places & Regions
What is the element that studies the characteristics and features of particular places and regions?
500
Distribution Map
What shows how people, language, religion, rainfall, or other information are spread throughout an area?
500
The global grid that is formed from latitude and longitude lines crossing.
What is absolute location?
500
The study of the Earth's land and water, its physical features and processes, its people and their activities and culture?
What is geography?
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