Themes of Geography
This theme refers to how people, goods and ideas travel from place to place.
Choices: Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction
What is Movement?
A type of map that describes landforms/bodies of water.
What is a physical map?
This part of map shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
What is compass rose?
The study of earth and its people.
What is geography?
This is the line that separates the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere. 0 degrees latitude line.
What is Equator?
This theme explores how people adapt to and use their environment
Choices: Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction
What is Human/Environment Interaction?
A type of map made of man-made boundaries. May include countries, capitals, & important cities.
What is a Political Map?
This part of map tells what the map is used for.
What is a title?
A system that uses a network of earth orbiting satellites to pinpoint absolute locations.
Choices: human geography, map, globe, global positioning system (GPS)
What is global positioning system (GPS)?
This is the line that separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. 0 degrees longitude line.
What is Prime Meridian?
This theme explores how geographers use directions and coordinates to identify where something is found.
Choices: Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction
What is Location?
Type of map that shows weather over a long period of time.
What is a climate map?
This part of map explains what the symbols mean.
What is a legend/key?
Numbers used to measure temperature, latitude, and longitude.
What is degrees?
What are the biggest landforms on earth called.
What is continents?
This theme looks at what areas have in common.
Choices: Movement, Location, Place, Region, Human/Environment Interaction
What is Regions?
Type of map that shows different resources in the area or how land is being used.
What is a natural resource or economic map?
This part of a map uses coordinates to locate a place.
What is a grid?
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
What type of climate zone is:
Close to the Equator.
Has high temperatures even at night.
High precipitation: lots and lots of rain.
What is tropical?
This theme explores human and/or physical features of a specific location
Choices: Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Place, Location
What is Place?
Type of map that shows how crowded a place is (people per square mile).
What is a population density map?
This part of map shows the distance on a map.
What is a map scale/scale?
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a map?
What is a spherical representation of the world?
What is a globe?