Themes of Geography
Terms you need to know!
100
This is the precise position on a globe.
What is location?
100
This is a way of looking at and understanding the world.
What is geographic perspective?
200
This is when ares share common characteristics such as government, landforms, or climate.
What is a region?
200
This is the distance of any point north or south of the equator, measured up to 90 degrees.
What is latitude?
300
This is how we have impacted and changed the land.
What is human/environmental interaction?
300
This is the shape and structure of the surface features of a place or region.
What is topography?
400
This is how people interact in the 21st century and how ideas are exchanged. Think about globalization.
What is movement?
400
This kind of rock changes from its original form through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
This includes the physical and cultural characteristics of a place.
What is a place?
500
This is a natural fuel formed by geological forces from the remains of living organisms.
What is fossil fuel?
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