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Themes of Geography
Vocabulary
Thinking Like a Geographer
Geography Skills Handbook
The Earth in Space
100
The transfer of people, goods, 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
In which direction does the Earth rotate?
East.
100
The day with the most hours of sunlight.
What is the summer solstice?
200
The affect of people on their environment and they way the environment affects people.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
200
They include landforms and waterways that define a particular place on Earth.
What are physical features?
200
What are the Tropics.
The area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn .
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 of longitude divides the Earth 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 unique features, such as plants, landforms, animals, and weather patterns.
What is place?
400
Our natural surroundings.
What is the environment?
400
The types of service a geographer provides for companies.
What is provide information about people and cultures where the company does business?
400
What are lines of longitude.
The imaginary lines that run from pole to pole, or from north to south?
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
What is G.P.S.
A system that uses radio signals to determine the exact location of places on Earth.
500
What is absolute location.
The lines of longitude and latitude can be used to find what? ( It's a theme of geography).
500
When these kind of rays hit our hemisphere, we experience summer.
What are direct rays?