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Map Skills
Branches of Geography
Themes of Geography
Vocabulary to Know
Miscellaneous
100

An imaginary horizontal line that runs around the center of Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles at 0 degrees latitude.

What is the equator?

100
These are the two main branches of geography.
What are human and physical geography?
100
The theme of geography that describes where something is.
What is location?
100

The study of physical, biological, and cultural features of the Earth's surface.

What is geography?

100

These things move about the world and change location.

What is a people, product, or idea.

200

Imaginary vertical lines on Earth that run between the North and South Poles.

What are lines of longitude?

200

A weatherman would fall under this branch of geography.

What is physical geography?

200
The theme of geography that describes the features that make a site unique.
What is place?
200
A spherical, or ball-shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
200

This type of geography deals with the world without people.

What is physical geography?

300
The measure of degrees for both the Prime Meridian and the Equator.
What is 0 degrees?
300

A geographer who studies economics, politics, and city life would be categorized under this main branch of geography.

What is human geography?

300
Areas that share common characteristics.
What are regions?
300

Half of the world.

What is a hemisphere?

300

These lines tell you how far east or west you are.

What is longitude?

400

Exact location on the Earth using latitude and longitude coordinates

Absolute Location

400

A geographer who studies landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants would be studying this type of geography.

What is physical geography?

400
This theme examines the many ways in which people interact with their environments.
What is human-environment interaction?
400
A large landmass usually surrounded by water.

What is a continent?

400

Hemisphere means

sphere cut into 2 pieces