Which Theme?
Map, Globe, or Both
Parts of a Map
Vocabulary
Random Answers
100

This theme looks at how and why people and things change locations. 

What is Movement?

100

While it cannot fit into your pocket, this geographical tool is preferred for its accuracy in showing Earth’s continents and bodies of water.

What is a Globe?

100

This part of a map shows the size of an area as compared to that area’s real-world size.

What is Scale?

100

This is the moving OUT of your home country.

What is Emigration?

100

Earth has this many continents.

What is 7?

200

This theme identifies the exact latitude & longitude of a place.

What is Location?

200

It can be very, very detailed (even showing an exact address). 

What is a Map?

200

Without this, we wouldn’t know which direction is up.

What is a Compass Rose?

200

A place’s long-term average temperature and precipitation.

What is Climate?

200

Geographers try to find the answers to these two questions.

What are: Where is it, and Why is it there?

300

Descriptions of physical features, important businesses, popular foods, and famous residents in Virginia use this theme

What is Place?

300

It contains a Compass Rose. 

What is Both?

300

Geographers use this to show the meaning of different symbols.

What is the Key or Legend?

300

A person uses this type of map to study the elevation of a region.

What is Topographical?

300

Between Push and Pull Factors, which ones force you to leave a place?

What are Push Factors?

400

Studying the consequences of people’s actions uses this theme.

What is Human/Environmental Interaction?

400

It (usually) doesn't have a title.

What is a Globe?

400

It can use feet, miles, kilometers, or even light years to show a distance. 

What is Scale?

400

These are the lines that run North to South across a globe.

What are lines of Longitude?

400

The food you eat travels this many miles to your plate.

What is 1500?

500

This theme studies how and why places are similar to other places.

What is Region?

500

Because of its natural distortion, Greenland sometimes appears bigger than Africa (even though it's not). 

What is a Map?

500

Without this, a reader may not know the overall purpose of a particular map.

What is a Title?

500

1600 Pennsylvania Ave is an example of this type of location.

What is Absolute Location?

500

Almost all of this country's 18 million residents live on the coast because the center region is too dry and dangerous. 

What is Australia?