What is Geography?
Using a Map
Hemispheres, Oceans, and Continents.
Map Grids
Latitude and Longitude
100
What is absolute location?
What is the exact place where something is.
100
What is physical geography?
What is the characteristics of the earth's surface.
100
Point to the key on the world map. What is a key?
What is a small section on a map that explains what the symbols mean.
100
What is the imaginary center line around which the earth rotates?
What is and axis.
100
What is a large body of salt water called?
What is an ocean.
200
What is a geographer?
What is a person who studies the earth and its features.
200
What is relative location?
What is a description of where a place is compared to something else.
200
What is a legend?
What is a small section on a map that explains what the symbols mean.
200
A major landmass is...
What is a continent.
300
What is geography?
What is the study of the earth and its features.
300
What is a cartographer?
What is a map maker.
300
What is a map? Find two maps in the classroom.
What is a flat picture of part or all of the earth.
300
What is latitude? What is longitude?
What is latitude: imaginary lines that measure distance from the equator; these lines run from side to side on a globe or a map. Longitude is an imaginary line that measure distance from the prime meridian; these lines run from top to bottom on a globe or a map.
300
A map that gives a basic picture of an area; includes political and physical maps.
What is a general-purpose map.
400
What is human geography?
What is the study of how people live on the earth.
400
Find the compass rose on the World Map. What is a compass rose.
What is the symbol on a map that shows the directions.
400
What is a scale?
What is a small chart that shows the distances represented on a map.
400
Do the latitude/longitude cheer.
What is gooooo team!
400
What is the difference between a physical and political map?
What is (physical map) a map that shows the physical features of an area, such as mountains, rivers, and plains. What is (political map) a map that shows the human-made boundaries of countries or regions.
500
What is location?
What is the place where something is.
500
Find the globe in the room. What is a globe?
What is a small, sphere-shaped model of the earth.
500
What is symbol? Give an example of a symbol you have seen on a map.
What is a mark or a small drawing on a map that represents something else.
500
Name the 7 continents.
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Africa.
500
A map that shows information about a specific topic is a...
What is a special-purpose map.
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