5 Themes
List the 5 Themes of Geography
Location, Place, HEI, Movement, Region
What are the 4 Cardinal Directions?
N, S, E, W
What is the imaginary line of latitude that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
What is geography?
The study of the earth
What are the 2 types of location and explain.
Absolute and Relative
What are the 4 Intermediate Directions?
NE, NW, SE, SW
How are lines of latitude and longitude measured?
degrees
What is the equator?
0 latitude that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres
What theme is this an example of...oil brought to US from Saudi Arabia?
Movement
What are the 4 hemispheres?
Northern
Southern
Eastern
Western
What is the main line of longitude that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What is the Prime Meridian?
Main line of longitude 0 - divides earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the theme of PLACE?
Identifying monuments, cultures, people, etc
What are the 5 main oceans?
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Arctic
Southern
What do you call lines that never cross?
parallel
What happens to a place on a map when it is made flat?
It becomes distorted.
What is the theme of geography where different places have similar features?
Region
What are the 7 continents?
N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa
What is latitude and longitude measured in?
degrees
What is longitude?
Imaginary lines that run north to south but measure east to west of the Prime Meridian.