5 Themes of Geography
The two types of location
What are relative location and absolute location?
The area on a map that tells what symbols on the map stand for and shows a scale for the map
What is the key?
Goes first when writing coordinates
What is latitude?
What is the crust?
An area unified by certain factors or characteristics
What is a region?
The two types of geography
What are physical geography & human geography?
Mapmakers who create 2D maps from 3D globes.
What are cartographers?
Measures direction east and west
What is longitude?
The rotation of heat below the mantle
What is convection?
The difference between weather and climate
What is short term changes vs recording over time?
How ideas, things, people get from one place to another
What is movement?
The map projection that looks like a peeled orange
What is Goode's Interrupted Equal Area projection?
The zero line for latitude and the zero line for longitude
What is the equator? What is the prime meridian?
What are weathering and erosion?
Tropical, dry, moderate, continental, polar
The desks, chairs, students, maps, etc. in this classroom are an example
What is place?
Shows a theme such as climate or language spoken.
What is a thematic map?
The lines that are parallel
What are lines of latitude?
The three types of plate movement that we discussed in class
What are subduction, sea floor spreading, and faulting?
What are latitude, proximity to water, and altitude?
The 5 Themes of Geography
What are:
Location
Place
Region
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
?
The sections of the globe if cut in half
What are hemispheres?
The name of the tropic lines north and south of the equator
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
The two physical results of subduction
What are ocean trenches and mountain ranges?
Resources that are fixed or finite amounts
What are non-renewable resources?