Geography Basics
The five themes of geography include location, place, region, movement, and this interaction between people and nature.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This map feature shows direction.
What is a compass rose?
he correct order of Earth’s layers from inside to outside.
What is Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust?
Mountains are most commonly formed at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
The shared beliefs, behaviors, and knowledge of a group.
What is culture?
This is the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on Earth.
What is Geography?
This map feature tells what the map is about.
What is a title?
The Earth sphere that contains all water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The Earth’s __________ causes variations in sunlight.
What is tilt?
A place where ideas and technology spread outward to other cultures.
What is a cultural hearth?
A person whose job is to create maps.
What is a Cartographer?
A map that shows natural features like rivers and mountains.
What is a physical map?
The theory that continents were once joined together.
What is Continental Drift?
Orographic precipitation falls on this side of a mountain.
What is the windward side?
A government where citizens hold political power.
What is a democracy?
These imaginary lines create the grid system on maps.
What are Latitude and Longitude?
A map that shows borders, cities, and countries.
What is a political map?
A sudden, violent shaking of the Earth along a fault line.
What is an earthquake?
The dry side of a mountain range is called this.
What is the leeward side (rain shadow)?
The longest mountain range in the world, located in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This part of a map explains the symbols used.
What is a legend (or key)?
A map that shows many kinds of information such as climate or population.
What is a thematic map?
The type of erosion that created the Grand Canyon.
What is water erosion?
The two most important factors used to define climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
The longest river in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Amazon River?