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100

The height of land above sea level

What is elevation.

100
What is it like when we get there?
What is place?
100

List the five themes of geography.

What is Movement, Region, Human/Environment Interaction, Location, and Place?

100

Cuba is 90 miles south of Florida.

What is relative location. 

100

Type of map used to find the largest country in South America. 

What is a political map?

200

Half of the earth. 

What is hemisphere?

200
How people and ideas get around.
What is movement?
200

The mnemonic device we use to remember the five themes.

Mr. Help

200

 In the midwest, there are very large fields and very large farms. The people who live there could say they live in a farming ____________.

What is region?

200

Type of map used to find the elevation of Africa. 

What is a physical map?

300
Parallel lines that measure how far north or south a place is from the equator. 

What are latitude lines? 

300
People having an impact on nature.
What is human/environment interaction?
300

How many continents are there in the world? 

What is 7?

300

In Venice, Italy, people use boats called gondolas to travel through the canals.

What is movement. 

300
A map that shows one idea over a particular area.  For example: a map that shows climate zones around the world. 

What is a thematic map?

400

The starting point for measuring longitude.  

What is the prime meridian?

400
Where are we?
What is location?
400

What is the largest ocean in the world? 

What is the Pacific Ocean?

400

Using solar power to create energy. 

What is human environment interaction

400
The most accurate way to show the entire earth. 

What is a globe? 

500

A material that can be used to produce crops or other products. 

What is a resource? 

500
Areas grouped together by similar characteristics, boundaries or functions.
What is region?
500

Name one continent entirely in the southern hemisphere. 

What is Australia or Antarctica? 

500

Paris, France is 48 degrees North latitude and 2 degrees East longitude.

What is absolute location.

500

Part of a map that explains the meaning of the symbols on a map.

What is a key?