Vocabulary
Five Themes of Geography
Latitude
Longitude
Hemispheres
100
Geography
What is the study of the Earth, its people, and the relationship between the two?
100
Norway is west of Sweden and north of Denmark.
What is location?
100
The city at 48 degrees North, 8 degrees East
What is Freiburg im Breisgau?
100
The city at 33 degrees North, 15 degrees East
What is Misratah?
100
The four hemispheres the earth is divided into
What are the Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern hemispheres?
200
Absolute location
What is an exact location of a place on Earth?
200
The countries in Africa that are south of the Sahara Desert are called Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is region?
200
The city at 52 degrees North, 8.5 degrees East
What is Bielefeld?
200
The city at 32.5 degrees North, 20 degrees East.
What is Banghazi?
200
The two equators the Equator divides the world into
What are the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
300
Compass rose
What is a circle on a map that shows the directions?
300
Because the village is on an island, you have to take a boat to get there.
What is movement?
300
The city at 50 degrees North, 8 degrees East
What is Mainz?
300
The city at 26 degrees North, 15.2 degrees East
What is Zawilah?
300
The two equators the Prime Meridian divides the world into
What are the Western and Eastern hemispheres?
400
Legend
What is a table on a map that shows what the colors and symbols mean?
400
The people in this country use wood from the nearby forests to build their homes.
What is human-environmental interaction?
400
The city at 51.5 degrees North, 12 degrees East
What is Halle?
400
The city at 30.2 degrees North, 19 degrees East
What is Al Uqaylah?
400
The imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
500
Relative location
What is where a place is compared to another place?
500
Most people in Switzerland speak German, but French, Italian, and Romansh are also official languages.
What is place?
500
The city at 53.2 degrees North, 8.9 degrees East
What is Bremen?
500
The city at 28 degrees North, 17.5 degrees East
What is Zillah?
500
The imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?