Map Basics
Continents and Oceans
Geography Terms
Themes of Geography
Maps and Directions
100

The study of earth, its people, and the relationship between the two is known as what?

What is Geography?

100

The continent with the largest population.

What is Asia?

100

Changes in the atmosphere that occur minute-to-minute.

What is weather?

100

The five themes of geography

What are Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Region?

100

The part of the map used to show cardinal directions like North, South, East, and West.

What is a Compass Rose?
200

What part of the map allows you to read the symbols and colors by explaining what they represent?

What is the Map Key/Legend?

200

Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe

What are the 7 continents?

200

The long-term weather patterns of a region.

What is climate?

200

The theme explored in The Lorax is when trees are cut down and the environment is polluted.

What is Human-Environment Interaction?
200

The section of the map that explains symbols and colors.

What is a Legend/Key?

300

GPS and Google Maps

What is a Road Map?

300

The names of all five oceans

What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic?

300

An exact location is provided by an address or GPS coordinates.

What is Absolute Location? 

300

A type of map used to show climate, population, and religion.

What is a thematic map?

300

A map that highlights natural features such as mountains, rivers, and deserts.

What is a physical map?

400

Lines of latitude run in this direction

What is East to West?

400

The only continent that is also a country.

What is Australia?

400

Directions that use landmarks, such as “turn left at the Starbucks.”

What is Relative Location?

400

This theme explores how humans change the environment and how the environment affects them.

What is Human-Environment Interaction

400

The practice of writing notes in the margins of a text to highlight key information.

What is annotating?

500

Lines of longitude run in this direction

What is North to South?

500

The ocean that lies between Africa and Australia

What is the Indian Ocean?
500

The two hemispheres are separated by the Prime Meridian.

What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

500

The moving of people, goods, and ideas across the globe.

What is movement?

500

The topic covered in our first Social Studies unit.

What is Geography?

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