Vocab
Continents and Oceans
5 Themes of Geography
All About Maps
Longitude and Lattitude
100
Natural surroundings of a place.
What is environment?
100
This ocean is closet to Pennsylvania.
What is the Atlantic?
100
This theme of geography tells you where a place is.
What is location?
100
This type of map shows the divisions between countries and identifies them by name.
What is political map?
100
this circles the middle of the Earth and is 0 degrees latitude
What is the Equator
200
the study of the Earth and its peoeples, places and environments.
What is geography?
200
This continent is also a country.
What is Australia?
200
This theme of geography tell about places that share common human systems such as religion and language.
What is region.
200
This map shows landforms and elevations of the land.
What is physical map?
200
these lines run north to south but measure distance on the Earth in an east to west direction.
What is lines of longitude
300
Portions of the Earth's surface that can be viewed at one time from one location.
What is landscape?
300
List the 7 continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?
300
This theme of geography can tell us how people use the resources in the environment around them.
What is human environment interaction?
300
the person who makes maps
What is a cartographer
300
this is the starting point for measuring longitude
What is the Prime Meridian
400
This term refers to Earth's features in terms of their locations, their shapes, and their relationships to one another.
What is spatial?
400
These two ocean are the coldest.
What are the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean?
400
These are the 5 themes of geography.
What are location, place, region, human environment interaction, and movement?
400
This type of map shows the number of people living in a region.
What is population map?
400
the two lines of latitude at 23 1/2 degrees North and South
What are the Tropic and Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
500
Describes where a place is in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
500
These continents are in the Western hemisphere.
What are North America, South America, and Antarctica?
500
The new Syrian family that arrived last week in Lancaster would fall under this theme of Geography.
What is movement?
500
You could use this map to find where hurricanes are more common.
What is climate map?
500
the continent that is located at 30°N and 90°E
What is Asia