Vocabulary
Materials that humans can take from their environment to survive and satisfy their needs. For example a mountain range may contain reserves of coal or iron, while nearby river or ocean may supply fish
What is a natural resource.
The 5 themes of geography.
What are Location, Place, Interaction, Movement, Regions
Which theme of geography involves travel from one place to another and exchanging goods and ideas?
What is movement
These include the kinds of houses people build, their means of transportation, their ways of earning a living, their languages, and their religions.
A sphere with a map of the Earth printed on it.
What is a Globe
The study of people, their environments and their resources.
What is geography
Which theme of geography deals with latitude and longitude and where things are located in relation to another place.
What is Location
2 types of location
What is relative and exact
Provide an example of how people have adapted to and changed their natural surroundings.
1. Hunters learned to plant seeds and grow crops. This adaptation meant they no longer had to move from place to place to search for food
2. Native Americans developed methods of irrigation. This adaptation allowed them to turn arid unproductive desert into farm land
Another name for a map maker
What is a Cartographer
Measure distance north and south of the Equator
What is Latitude
Which theme of geography describes how people adapt to the environment and how people change the environment.
What is Interaction
This type of location describes the exact location of where something is located.
What is Exact Location
Movement occurs because?
People and resources are scattered unevenly around the globe.
A way of drawing the Earth on a flat surface.
What is map projection
Measure distance east and west from the Prime Meridian
What is Longitude
Which theme of geography describes areas united by similar physical conditions, and uniting by common cultural traits.
What is Region
This type of location describes where something is located in relation to some other place.
What is Relative Location
The most common tools used to understand geography are . (2 things)
What are maps and globes.
What is one disadvantage of a flat map.
It distorts some parts of the Earth
Bringing water to dry land
What is irrigation
Which theme of geography describes physical features and human features?
What is Place?
These include climate, soil, vegetation, animal life and bodies of water
What are Physical Features
A drawing of the surface of the Earth or part of the Earth
What is a map
A map that deals with a specific topic
What is a Thematic Map