Geography Basics
Weather and Climate
Ecosystems and Biomes
Maps Skills
Five Themes of Geography
100

This is the study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth.

What is geography?

100

This is the daily condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place.

What is weather?

100

This is a group of plants and animals that depend on one another and their environment for survival.

What is an ecosystem?

100

This type of map shows political units, such as countries or states.  

What is a Political Map?

100

This explains how and why people, goods and ideas move from place to place.

What is MOVEMENT?

200

North, south, east, and west

What are cardinal directions?

200

This is the average weather of a place over many years.

What is climate?

200

These are regions on Earth that are made up of similar communities of plants and animals.

What are biomes?

200

This type of map shows physical, or natural features of a place.

What is a Physical Map?

200

This is an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature.

What is REGION?

300

These directions lie between the cardinal directions.

What are intermediate directions?

300

This is heaviest near the Equator where moist air is heated and rises.

What is precipitation?

300

This ecosystem has closely growing trees.

What is a forest ecosystem?

300

This is a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart. 

What is a compass rose?

300

This these describes finding where a place is.

What is LOCATION?

400

This is the position north or south of the Equator.

What is latitude?

400

This is a measure of how hot or cold the air is.

What is temperature?

400

Moist temperate climates support thick _______ forests of deciduous trees.

What is temperate?

400

This is the main way to show information about Earth surface.  

What are maps?

400

This is a mix of human and nonhuman features. 

What is PLACE?

500

This is the position in degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.

What is longitude?

500

This is the climate region we live in.

What is a temperate climate?

500

This ecosystem has ice caps and tundra.

What is a cold climate ecosystem?

500

These can be hard to use when looking for specific features such as roads on a photograph.

What are Aerial Photographs?

500

This considers how people affect their environment or natural surroundings and how their environment might affect them.

What is HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?

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