5 Themes of Geography
What is human environment interaction?
It is impossible to display a globe on a flat surface without this.
What is distortion?
This geographic tool is used to indicate the cardinal direction.
What is a compass rose?
What is a contour map?
This person creates maps.
What is a cartographer?
Niagara Falls is known for it's unique location along the border of the United States and Canada.
What is a place?
This type of projection is used for sailors and helps them cross the ocean.
What is a Mercator Projection?
This tool represents the distances on a map.
What is a scale?
A type of map that shows features such as mountains, rivers, valleys, and canyons.
What is a physical map?
The equator divides the earth into these two halves.
What are the northern and southern hemisphere?
That McDonalds is at 134 Forest Ave, Virginia.
What is location? (absolute)
This geographic tool is the most accurate representation of the Earth.
What is a globe?
What is a map legend? (key)
Used to store layers of information so that this information can be analyzed and observed for patterns.
What is GIS?
What is a secondary source?
The Spanish colonizing South America.
What is movement?
This map is visually appealing and has the least amount of distortion.
What is the Robinson Projection?
What is longitude and latitude?
This type of map shows the borders between countries around the world.
What is a political map?
0 Degree longitude line is known as this.
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is a region?
Pilots rely on this type of projection.
What is a polar projection?
Horizontal lines that run east to west.
These maps focus on specific topics, such as climate, population density, etc.
What is a thematic map?
What are colors?