Continents and Oceans
Latitude & Longitude
Maps and Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Five Themes of Geography
100

How many continents are there?

What is 7

100

What line divides Earth into North and South?

What is The Equator

100

The navigational (direction) tool on a map. 

What is a compass rose?

100

The study of Earth and the people who live on it and how they use it.

What is Geography?

100

What theme tells where a place is?

What is Location

200

The largest ocean covering one third of the Earth's surface.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

The number of Oceans on Earth.

What is five?

200

What does a map scale show?

What is Distance on a map vs. real life



200

Imaginary lines that run from North to South pole around the world. 

What is Longitude?

200

What theme describes what a place is like?

What is Place?

300

The third largest continent

What is North America?

300

What line divides Earth into East and West?

What is Prime Meridian

300

What tool on a map shows directions?

What is a Compass rose

300
The earth is divided into these four parts.

What is a hemisphere?

300

What theme explains people-environment relationships?

What is Human-Environment Interaction

400

A continent located on both the northern and western hemispheres.

What is North America?

400

What Lines that run east-west?

What is Latitude

400

What part of the map explains what symbols mean?

What is Key or Legend?


400

A large land mass found on Earth.

What is a continent?

400

What theme explains movement of people, goods, ideas?

What is Movement

500

What ocean borders the east coast of the U.S.?

What is the Atlantic Ocean

500

 Where do the Equator and Prime Meridian meet?

0°, 0°

500

The exact spot where something is located by its latitude and longitude. 

What is absolute location?

500

What does 'chronological order' mean?

What are Events from earliest to latest IN ORDER

500

What theme groups places with similar features?

what is Region?