The Study of Earth
Directions
5 Themes
Ways to Show Earth's Surface
Maps
100
What is the study of human and nonhuman features of Earth?
Geography
100
What type of directions are North, South, East, and West?
Cardinal Directions
100
Which of the 5 themes describes where a place is?
Location
100
Which way to show Earth's surface is a model of Earth with the same sphere shape as Earth itself?
Globes
100
What type of map shows physical, or natural features?
Physical Map
200
How do you draw and label a line of latitude?
200
Which direction on a compass is at the top?
North
200
Which of the 5 themes describes the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location?
Place
200
What type of tool do I use to map Earth on a flat surface?
Map/Projections
200
What type of map shows political units, such as states and countries?
Political Map
300
How do you draw and label a line of longitude?
300
Which direction on a compass is on the right?
East
300
Which of the 5 themes describes how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another?
Movement
300
What is the difference between a map and a globe?
Globes are round, maps are flat.
300
What part of the map is a diagram of a compass showing direction?
Compass Rose
400
Each half of Earth is called a what?
Hemisphere
400
Which direction on a compass is at the bottom?
South
400
Which of the 5 themes describes how people affect there environment, and how the environment affects them?
Human-Environment Interaction
400
What are the two types of photographs that geographers use?
Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images
400
What part of a map explains the symbols and shading on the map?
Key
500
What two hemisphere's in the United States in?
Northern and Western
500
What direction on a compass is on the left?
West
500
Which of the 5 themes describes an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature?
Region
500
What are computer-based systems that store and use information linked to geographic locations?
Geographic Information Systems
500
What type of map shows the location or distribution ofhuman or physical features?
Special Purpose Map