5 Themes of Geography
What is location?
The study of the Earth and how we interact with it.
What is Geography?
A landform that is a is a natural elevation of the Earth’s surface with steep sides
What is a mountain?
The part of a map that tells us what the map is about.
What is the title?
The major ocean that borders California
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The theme of Geography that helps us know how people and ideas move from one place to another.
What is movement?
These are the two hemispheres that we live in.
What are the Northern and Western hemisphere?
The line at 0 degrees longitude that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
The part of the map that tells us the 4 cardinal directions.
What is the compass?
The major ocean that borders the East Coast of the US (New York, Florida, etc.)
The theme of Geography that helps us know what a location is like.
What is place?
The term for describing a place's exact location, usually by coordinates.
What is absolute location?
The line at 0 degrees latitude that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The part of the map that tells us what the symbols on the map mean.
What is the key (or legend)?
The major ocean that is South of Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The theme of Geography that describes how people interact with their environment.
What is human environment interaction?
Describing where something is located by telling someone what it's near.
What is relative location?
A reaction within the Earth that are caused by faults (fractures below the Earth’s surface)
What are earthquakes?
The part of the map that tells us how far away things are from each other.
What is the scale?
The major ocean that is North of India and Asia.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The theme of Geography that tells us how places are similar or different from each other.
What is region?
Formal, Functional, and Perceptual
What are the three types of regions?
a broad, flat area of land higher than the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
Thematic, General Reference, and Navigational
What are the three types of maps?
The seven continents on the Earth.