Geography+Social Scientists
This type of geography studies people, cultures, and how humans interact with their environment.
What is human geography?
These maps show boundaries between countries, states, and cities
What are political maps?
This is an exact coordinate of a place
What is absolute location?
This line of longitude runs vertically 0° .
What is the Prime Meridian?
This map element shows which direction is north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass?
This type of geography focuses on natural features like mountains, rivers, and climate patterns.
What is physical geography?
These maps display specific themes or topics like population density or rainfall amounts.
What are thematic maps?
I am 2 blocks away from you. This is what type of location?
Relative location
This type of location gives an exact position using latitude and longitude coordinates.
What is absolute location?
This social scientist studies past events and civilizations using written records
What is a historian?
These maps show natural features like mountains, rivers, and elevation
What are physical maps?
This theme examines how people, goods, and ideas travel from one place to another.
What is movement?
These factors force people to leave their current living location
What is a push factor?
These are the four essential elements every good map should have.
What are compass, title, scale, and key/legend?
This social scientist studies past human life by examining artifacts and remains
What is an archaeologist?
A textbook is an example of...
What is a secondary source?
This theme groups places together based on common characteristics
What is region?
These factors encourage people to seek a new place to live
What is a pull factor?
This climate zone is found near the equator and is hot year-round.
What is a tropical climate zone?
This social scientist studies human cultures and societies
What is an anthropologist?
This theme studies how people adapt to, modify, and depend on their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
This climate zone experiences four seasons, with cold winters and hot, humid summers
What is a temperate climate zone?