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Themes of Geography
Vocabulary
Thinking Like a Geographer
Geography Skills Handbook
The Earth in Space
100
The transfer of people, objects, or ideas from one place to another has to do with this theme of geography.
What is movement?
100
1,000 years
What is millennium?
100
The two types of geography.
What are physical geography and human geography?
100
The Mercator Projection map is not the best at showing sizes because of a high level of this.
What is distortion?
100
The four inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
200
The affect of people on their surroundings is considered this theme of geography?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
200
Computer programs that gather, analyze, and display geographic information.
What are Geographic Information Systems?
200
A human geographer studies these.
What are people's religions, languages, and ways of life?
200
The imaginary lines that run east to west across the Earth, also known as parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
200
It takes about 365 days for the Earth to make one ______ around the sun.
What is a revolution?
300
Areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics.
What are regions?
300
This imaginary line circles the Earth and divides it into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The four main periods of time in Western Societies.
What are prehistory, ancient history, middle ages, and modern history?
300
We live in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western hemispheres?
300
Two days per year that have equal amounts of daylight and darkness.
What are equinoxes?
400
Defined by the physical features, such as plants, landforms, animals, and weather patterns.
What is place?
400
Lines on a map for each major level of elevation.
What are contour lines?
400
The types of service a geographer provides for companies.
What is provide information about people and cultures where the company does business?
400
On a map, these places are symbolized by a star within a circle.
What are capitals?
400
The Earth rotates on its ____________ one time every 24 hours.
What is axis?
500
The position of a spot on the Earth's surface which can be described as absolute or relative.
What is location?
500
Day of the year with the least hours of daylight.
What is the winter solstice?
500
They can measure changing temperatures, levels of pollution, and can provide detailed images of Earth's surface.
What are satellites?
500
Maps that show events that occurred in a region over time.
What are historical maps?
500
When these kind of rays hit our hemisphere, we experience summer.
What are direct rays?