Map Basics
The study of earth, its people, and the relationship between the two.
What is Geography?
The continent with the largest population.
What is Asia?
Changes in the atmosphere that occur minute-to-minute.
What is weather?
The five themes of geography
What are Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction, Location, and Region?
The part of the map used to show cardinal directions like North, South, East, and West.
The part of a map that helps you to read symbols and colors.
What is the Map Key/Legend?
Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe
What are the 7 continents?
The long-term weather patterns of a region.
What is climate?
The theme explored in The Lorax (When trees were cut down and the environment became polluted).
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The section of the map that explains symbols and colors.
What is a Legend/Key?
GPS and Google Maps
What is a Road Map?
The names of the four oceans
What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic?
An exact location is provided by an address or GPS coordinates.
What is Absolute Location?
A type of map used to show climate, population, language, etc.
What is a thematic map?
A map that highlights natural features such as mountains, rivers, and deserts.
What is a physical map?
Lines of latitude run in this direction
What is East to West?
The only continent that is also a country.
What is Australia?
Directions that use landmarks, such as “turn left at the Starbucks.”
What is Relative Location?
This theme explores how humans change the environment and how the environment affects them.
What is Human-Environment Interaction
The practice of writing notes in the margins of a text to highlight key information.
What is annotating?
Lines of longitude run in this direction
What is North to South?
The ocean that lies between Africa and Australia
The two hemispheres are separated by the Prime Meridian.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
The moving of people, goods, and ideas across the globe.
What is movement?
The topic covered in our first Social Studies unit.
What is Geography?