5 Themes
Regions
Tools
Vocab
Misc
100
The study of the earth
What is Geography?
100
Coastal Plains, North Central Plains, Great Plains, and Mountains and Basins
What are the 4 Regions?
100
Map, Globe, and Graphs
What are tools of geography?
100
This type of landform is a vast and flat fertile region of land. These areas have higher populations than any other landforms.
What is plain?
100
The measuring tool that helps the map reader calculate distances on a map
What is a scale?
200
Location, Place, Interaction, Movement, Region
What is the 5 Themes of Geography?
200
Largest region and most fertile land that covers the southern portion of state
What is the Coastal Plains?
200
Sphere with a map printed on it
What is globe?
200
This type of landorm is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small flat top
What is butte?
200
A map measures absolute locations using what
What are latitude and longitude lines?
300
The exact location of a place
What is Absolute?
300
Region that is Arlington in
What is Central Plains?
300
Projection transfers the Earth curved surface onto a flat surface
What is a map?
300
Long periods of little rain
What is a drought?
300
Part of the map that explains to the reader what information they are looking at
What is a title?
400
Areas of the world that have similar characteristics
What is Region?
400
Region that has large stretches of flat, rolling land
What is Great Plains?
400
Graphs that show parts of a whole
What is a circle graph?
400
This type of landform is relatively long and narrow and runs paralle to the mainland, protecting the coastline.
What is a barrier island?
400
Small area of a map that helps the reader to understand the symbols
What is a legend/key?
500
0 degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
500
The highest elevation and the driest region
What is Mountains and Basins
500
0 degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
500
This type of landorm is described as a steep cliff or a steep slope that separates two relatively level areas of land from one another.
What is an escarpment?
500
Title, Compass Rose, Key or Legend, Grid, and Scale
What are the five parts of a map?
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