Terms
This is the study of the physical features of the Earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these features.
What is geography?
This imaginary line is located at 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
This map component tells you which direction is north.
What is the compass rose?
This tells you where someplace can be found. It can be given in either absolute or relative terms.
What is location?
This country is located at 40°N, 100°W?
What is the United States of America?
This is a person who studies the physical features of the Earth, including its regions, climate, and natural resources, as well as human activity as it relates to these subjects.
What is a geographer?
This imaginary line is located at about 23.5° north latitude and marks the southern edge of the northern temperate zone.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Consisting of a series of horizontal and vertical lines, this map component helps a reader find absolute locations.
What is the map grid?
This theme involves grouping areas together according to unifying characteristics.
What is region?
This country is located at 60°N, 120°W?
What is Canada?
This imaginary line is located at about 66.5° south latitude and marks the northern edge of the southern polar zone.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
This map component shows what symbols and colors on a map are meant to represent.
What is a map legend, or key?
This theme studies how the environment impacts people, and how people impact the environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
This country is located at 20°, -100°?
What is Mexico?
This imaginary line marks 0° longitude and runs through Greenwich Observatory in London, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These are the four properties of a map.
What is area, shape, distance, and direction?
This theme describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
What is place?
This country is located at 10°S, 50°W?
What is Brazil?
This imaginary line is located at 180° longitude. Travelers who cross over it will find that the date on their phones has changed.
What is the International Date Line?
These are methods used by cartographers to compensate for distortion when displaying the globe on a flat map.
What are map projections?
This theme examines how and why people, goods, and ideas are transferred from one place to another.
What is movement?
This country is located at -25°, 130°?
What is Australia?