Geography
List the seven continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/Oceania, Antarctica
Type of map that shows borders or boundaries, regions, or cities.
What is political map?
The study of how culture and people relate to each other.
What is cultural geography?
Lines that show distance north or south from the equator measured in degrees (run from East to West)
Term for materials that are naturally found in the environment
What are natural resources?
List the 5 oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, Arctic
Type of map that shows a particular subject matter or theme of a geographic area.
What is a thematic map?
These three elements make up culture.
What are language, religion, and ethnicity?
They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
What are longitude lines/meridians?
North America is found in this hemisphere.
What is the Northwestern Hemisphere?
Flat representation of the Earth
What is a map?
Type of map that shows natural features, like mountains, rivers, and oceans
What is a physical map?
The study of geography that deals with boundaries, divisions, and possessions of countries.
What is political geography?
Line of latitude at 0 degrees
What is the equator?
These two types of factors determine whether people immigrate to a new place or emigrate from place.
What are push and pull factors?
The study of patterns on the Earth's surface is called this.
What is geography?
Type of map that shows weather over a long period of time.
What is a climate map?
List two natural borders and two man-made borders.
Natural-water, walking paths, trees
Man-made-fence, barbed wire, wall
Line of longitude at 0 degrees
What is the Prime Meridian?
A term for the spread of cultural ideas, practices, and beliefs from one person to another or from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
3D representation of the Earth.
What is a globe?
Type of map that shows the terrain of an area, like elevation, and can be 3D
What is a topographical map?
Term for the number of people living in a single area.
What is population?
Coordinates show this type of location: absolute or relative?
What is absolute location?
What is a population pyramid?