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Vocab
Can You Read a Map?
What's My Theme?
The Geographer's Tool Belt
Misc.
100

The loss of accuracy in the size or position of objects on a map:

What is distortion?

100

An inset on a map that explains the symbols, provides a scale, and usually identifies the type of map projection used:

What is a key/legend?

100

Study of why and how people move, including the roads and routes that make movement so common:

What is movement?

100

North, East, South & West:

What are the cardinal directions?

100

The location of a place relative to another place:

What is relative location?

200

This is latitude:

What are lines are flat and run horizontal & parallel around the Earth? 

200

North Dakota is what to Iowa:

What is Northwest?

200

These are two aspects of human-environment interaction:

 What are:

  • An area’s environment includes its land, water, climate, plants, and animals?
  • Geographers study how people interact with their environment?
200

A software program that gathers geographic information that is used to make and manipulate maps and data:

 What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?

200

This is absolute location:

What describes a place’s exact position on Earth in terms of longitude & latitude?

300

The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create:

What is geography?

300
Cities with stars as their centers are usually this of their area:

What is the capital city?

300

Location consists of two parts, these parts are: 

What are:

  • Absolute location is a specific description of where a place is, such as an address?
  • Relative location is a general description of where a place is?
300

This is a Global Positioning System (GPS):

What is a navigational system that can determine absolute location by using satellites and receivers?     

300

This is the deadliest job in America:

What is the President?

400

These are thematic maps:

What are maps that give information about a region or area; Population, Economic activity, Resource, Language, Ethnicity, Climate, Precipitation, Vegetation, Physical, & Political?

400

Montana is this to British Columbia:

What is Southeast?

400

This is an area’s landscape, the features that define the area and make it different from other places & can include land, climate, and people:

What is place?

400

List five tools geographers use in research:

What are:

  1. Fieldwork
  2. Primary Sources
  3. Photographs
  4. Satellite Images
  5. Maps & Globes
  6. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
400

This is Mr. Enget's official height:

What is 5'6?

500

These are lines that run vertically and consist of meridians around the Earth:

What is longitude?

500

0* Latitude & 0* Longitude are called these:

What are the Equator (Latitude) & Prime Meridian (Longitude)?

500

This theme has a unifying characteristic, like climate, land, population, or history & consists of formal & informal areas:

What are regions?

500

This is the difference between absolute & relative location:


What are:

Absolute location is a specific description of where a place is, such as an address?

Relative location is a general description of where a place is?


500

This is the sixth planet from the sun:

What is Saturn?