Themes & Elements of Geography
This shows where a place is in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
This tells the subject of the map or globe.
What is the title?
This region contains the United States, Canada, and Mexico, along with the Great Lakes - the largest group of freshwater lakes.
What is North America?
This projection was created by projecting part of the globe onto a flat surface.
What is the azimuthal projection?
This type of map shows features that humans have created such as cities and borders.
What is a political map?
This shows a similarity between places.
What is region?
These represent information such as natural resources and economic activities.
What are symbols?
This region includes Brazil, a growing economic power, and the Amazon Rain Forest, the world's largest tropical rain forest.
What is South America?
This projection shows much of Earth accurately, but it distorts the shape and area of land near the North and South Poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
This type of map shows natural features such as landforms and elevation.
What is a physical map?
In this element, geographers explore how humans change the environment and use resources.
What is environment and society?
This explains what the symbols and colors on the map or globe represent.
What is a scale?
This region includes China, the world's most populous country.
What is East Asia?
This projection resembles the flattened peel of an orange.
What is the homolosine projection?
This type of map shows the location of activities at different points such as economic activities, and the use of natural resources.
What is a point symbol map?
This theme includes human and physical characteristics of a location.
What is place?
These are imaginary horizontal lines that measure the distance north or south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This region includes Africa south of the Sahara, the world;s largest desert.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
This projection combines strengths of other projections. It shows the shape and area of the continents and oceans with reasonable accuracy. However, the North and South Poles are distorted.
What is the Robinson projection?
This type of map uses dots to show how something is distributed in a country or region.
What is a dot density map?
This satellite system is used to determine the exact point where a place is located.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
This shows the specific area of the world that is shown on a map.
What is a locator globe?
This region includes the Pacific island nations north and east of Australia and New Zealand.
What is Australia, the Pacific Realm, and Antarctica?
This projection is a modified version of the Robinson projection.
What is the Winkel Tripel projection?
This type of map uses symbols of different sizes to show the size of an event.
What is a proportional symbol map?