Maps and Globes
This type of map shows countries, borders, states, and major cities.
What is a political map?
This is the largest continent in the world.
What is Asia?
This imaginary line is located at 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
The beliefs, customs, traditions, food, and way of life of a group of people are called this.
What is culture?
This Five Theme answers the question “Where is it?”
What is Location?
This type of map is best for identifying mountains, rivers, deserts, and other natural features.
What is a physical map?
This continent is directly south of North America.
What is South America?
These lines run east and west but measure how far a location is north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
This word means moving from one place to another to live.
What is migration?
Mountains, climate, language, food, and architecture can all help describe this Five Theme.
What is Place?
A map uses different shades to show the average rainfall in different parts of Texas. This is this type of map.
What is a thematic map?
This ocean is located between North America and Europe. (Hint. Georgia)
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
At the coordinate 25°N, 80°W, identify which number represents latitude and which represents longitude.
What are 25°N = latitude and 80°W = longitude?
This term means having many different cultures or groups of people in one place.
What is diversity?
Farmers build irrigation canals to bring water to crops in a dry environment. This demonstrates this Five Theme.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
You need to study both the location of the Rocky Mountains AND the borders of U.S. states. Name the two types of maps you would use.
What are physical and political maps?
This continent contains the countries of Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa.
What is Africa?
These imaginary lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole and measure distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
Pizza began in Italy but is now eaten all around the world. This is an example of cultural ideas spreading from one place to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Brazil exports coffee to the United States while Brazilian music and food also spread around the world. Name the Five Theme AND the two things moving in this example.
What is Movement — goods (coffee) and ideas/culture (music and food)?
One map shows country borders, another shows elevation, and another shows population density. Identify the map types in that order
What are political, physical, and thematic maps?
This is the largest ocean in the world and is located between Asia and the Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A student writes a location as 75°W, 20°N. The coordinates are in the wrong order. Write them correctly and explain why.
What is 20°N, 75°W? Latitude is written first, longitude second.
A family moves to a new country and begins adopting some of the customs of their new country while still keeping some of their original traditions.
What is acculturation?
A country has Spanish as a major language, shares historical connections with neighboring countries, and is grouped with other countries in Latin America. Identify the Five Theme
What is Region?