Geographic Themes
Map Skills
Maps
Oceans and Continents
Landforms and Biomes
100
Nipher is at 700 South Kirkwood Road.

What is absolute location?

100
The part of the map that tells what information the map is giving.  It does NOT have to be at the top.

What is Title?

100

The data that gives long term weather patterns.

What is Climate?

100

There are 7 of these, including Africa.

What are continents?

100

The biome that has between 50-260 inches of rainfall every year.

What is Tropical Rainforest?

200

Air Pollution

What is Human-Environmental Interactions?

200

The measurement conversion that tells how the distance on the map converts the distance on the ground.

What is scale?

200

The map that shows borders between states, countries and counties.

What is Political Map?

200
The ocean that surrounds Antartica 

What is Southern Ocean?

200

The landform that has a large, flat area higher than the surrounding land.

What is a Plateau?

300

Migration

What is Movement?

300

0 degrees latitude

What is Equator?

300

The map that shows landforms.

What is Physical Map?

300

The ocean that is the farthest north

What is Arctic Ocean?

300

The biome that means "treeless plain".

What is tundra?

400
The Midwest

What is Region?

400

The lines that run north to south and measure degrees East and West

Longitude

400

The map that shows how many people live in an area.

What is Population Density Map?

400

The continent that is southeast of Asia.

What is Australia?

400

The biome that is categorized not by the amount of heat but the lack of precipitation.

What is desert?

500
The Arch is in St. Louis

What is Place?

500

0 degrees longitude

What is Prime Meridian?

500

The cause of climate temperature being similar throughout the year rather than extremes from month to month at the same point latitude.

What is nearness to large bodies of water?

500

The continent is at 90 degrees South latitude.

What is Antartica? 

500

The landform that is a narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land masses with water on both sides.

What is isthmus?

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