This is a continuous land mass.
What is a continent?
This shows a ratio of distance on a map to actual distance.
What is a scale?
This line goes through the center of the Earth at 0 degrees North or South.
What is the Equator?
This type of region is based on data and has set borders.
What is a formal region?
This is what geographers look for when studying the Earth.
What is patterns?
This is a list of symbols found on a map & what they mean.
What is a legend (or key)?
This measures distance North or South from the Equator.
What is latitude?
This ocean surrounds the continent of Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
This type of region is based on people's attitudes and feelings.
What is a perceptual region?
What is human geography (cultural geography)?
This is an area with similar characteristics.
What is a region?
This type of map shows landforms of an area.
What is a physical map?
This continent is in the Western Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere.
What is North America?
This type of region has some sort of use to society.
What is a functional region?
This tool can be used to layer geographic data.
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
This type of technology uses satellites to determine a location.
What is global positioning system (GPS)?
This type of map shows the states and borders of Mexico.
What is a political map?
This country is split between the continents of Europe and Asia.
What is Russia?
The European Union would be considered this type of region.
What is a formal region?
This type of photography is capable of capturing this image of the Rocky Mountains.
What is Aerial Photography?
This term is described by the physical and human characteristics of an area.
What is place?
The population density map of France, as seen below, would be considered this type of map.
What is thematic map?
This is the reason why we cannot create a perfectly proportional map of the Earth.
What is the Earth is round?
This map of interstates in Montana would be considered this type of region.
What is a functional region?
The following images were taken using this type of technology.
What is a satellite?