5 Main Themes Of Geography
Describes the physical and human characteristics of a location.
What is Place?
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface.
What is a map?
This shows what the subject of a map is.
What is the Title?
The equator divides the Earth into these two hemispheres.
What is Northern and Southern?
This shows country borders, capital cities, and other places.
What is a political map?
Describes the position of people and places on Earth.
What is Location?
A spherical model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
This shows the four principal directions.
What is the Compass Rose?
The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into these two hemispheres.
What is Western and Eastern?
This shows land and water habitats of an area.
What is a biome map?
Describes how humans adapt to the environment around them and how the environment affects daily life.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
True or false: a map can be spherical.
What is false?
This shows the distance between points on a map.
What is the Scale?
Lines that run east to west and are measured north and south of the equator.
What is latitude?
This shows the average number of people per unit.
What is a population density map?
Refers to to the way people, products, information, and ideas travel from one place to another.
What is Movement?
A globe is this shape.
What is spherical or ball-shaped?
This explains what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a Legend/Key?
Lines that run north to south and are measured east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
This focuses on a country or region's agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and other activities.
What is an economy map?
These are areas with unifying characteristics.
What is Regions?
These show mountains, oceans countries of the world, and major cities.
What are maps, and globes?
True or false: A map has to have all the essentials (title, Compass Rose, scale, and legend/key).
What is True?
This runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This shows mountain ranges/elevation, rivers, oceans, islands, deserts, and plains.
What is a physical map?