Geography Basics
These two continents are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere.
What are North America and South America?
This causes the changing of seasons throughout the year.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis toward the sun?
These two oceans border the United States.
What are the Pacific and Atlantic oceans?
This type of map shows how people make a living.
What is Economic Activity?
This line marks 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Geographers use this to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth.
What is longitude and latitude, or the global grid?
A full rotation of the Earth takes this long.
What is one day or 24 hours?
Chaparral is a type of this.
What is vegetation?
This type of map indicates where people live.
What is Population Density?
This line marks 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
This tells you where a place is located compared to another place.
What is relative location?
This is the zone between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
What is the Polar Zone?
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This map shows borders created by humans.
What is Political Boundaries?
These lines run from East to West across the Earth.
This tells the reader how distances on a map compare to distances on Earth.
What is the scale?
One full revolution of the Earth takes precisely this amount of time.
What is 365 and 1/4 days?
Coal, iron, uranium, and petroleum are examples of these.
What are natural resources?
You will find all the plants and trees in an area on this type of map.
What is Vegetation?
North, South, East, and West are collectively known as these.
What are the cardinal directions?
This changes the shape, size, and position of features when representing the Earth on a flat map.
What is distortion?
Places in tropical latitudes close to the equator have hot weather year-round for this reason.
What are the direct rays of the sun?
The pattern of climate for a particular location is indicated on this type of graph.
What is a climagraph?
You will find these on a physical features map.
What are landforms?
This is a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface.
What is a map projection?