Reading Maps
This tells you the subject of a map
What is the title?
The branch of geography that studies mountains, rivers, and forests.
What is Physical Geography
One of the 5 themes of geography. Example, a rainforest.
What is region?
You use this tool when looking up driving directions.
What is a GPS?
Tells you which direction north, south, east, and west are pointing.
What is a compass rose?
The branch of geography that studies people, their culture, their languages, and the landscapes they create.
What is human geography?
This theme looks at how and why people travel somewhere new.
What is movement?
The branch of geography that studies how to prevent forest fires.
What is the equator?
The branch of geography that would study how to end world hunger.
What is human geography?
Is a general description. For example: "north of here," or "to the left."
What is relative location?
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is an example of which theme of geography?
What is place?
Tells you what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend?
The branch of geography that studies how to make maps.
What is cartography?
Human-caused climate change is an example of this theme.
What is human-environment interaction?
The weathermen on TV study this branch of geography.
What is meteorology?
The line that separates the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
The branch of geography that studies water on Earth.
What is hydrology?
The essential element that deals with how humans behave on a large scale.
What is human systems?
An earthquake is an example of this Essential Element
What is Physical Systems?