The 5 themes of Geography
Maps
Physical Geography
The Spheres
Political Geography
100
The five themes of Geography
What is Location, Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction,Region
100
Maps that show rivers, lakes and streams.
What is a physical map?
100
The long term weather patterns of a place.
What is Climate
100
The sphere effected by water pollution.
What is hydrosphere?
100
The capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
200
WHen hundreds of New Orleanians fled the city after hurricane Katrina.
What is Movement?
200
Maps that show man-made boundaries.
What is a political map.
200
A low area surrounded by mountains.
What is a basin?
200
The sphere effected by the thinning of the ozone layer.
What is Atmosphere?
200
The three states that make up the west coast.
What is Washington, Oregon, California
300
When people in New Orleans built the levees to control the rivers.
What is Human-Environment interaction
300
The map you would look at to determine the height of Mount Everest.
What is Topographical map?
300
The Canadian Shield was formed by this geographic feature.
What is glacier?
300
The sphere that contains all life.
What is biosphere?
300
The three states that border Louisiana.
What is Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas?
400
Any place with shared cultural or physical characteristics.
What is a region
400
The tool found on a map to measure distance.
What is map scale?
400
The land feature found on the crest of the Rocky Mountains that separates west flowing rivers and east flowing rivers.
What is the continental divide?
400
All four of the spheres.
What is Hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere
400
All fifty States except Hawaii and Alaska.
What is the Contiguous Unites States?
500
The absolute location of New Orleans
What is 30 degrees North and 90 degrees West
500
The map you would use to determine the how long it will take you to get from New Orleans to California.
Road map
500
The geographical zone that Louisiana lies in.
What is Coastal Plain?
500
When a farmer tests his soil he is testing this sphere.
What is lithosphere?
500
The large body of water in the Canadian Shield?
What is Hudson Bay?
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