Five Themes
An address
What is Absolute Location?
This looks like the rungs of a ladder.
What is latitude?
A body of water partially enclosed by land.
What is a bay?
This river starts in Minnesota and follows many states' borders before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico (America).
What is the Mississippi River?
This map shows borders of countries, states, counties, and cities.
What is a political map?
The Rocky Mountains, located in the western half of the United States, is an example of this theme.
What is region
The Prime Meridian is 0 degrees of what?
What is longitude?
This is a ring-shaped island formed by coral reef.
What is an atoll?
This mountain range is found in the western half of the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This map will show the natural features on Earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
The movie Trains, Planes, and Automobiles fit into this theme.
What is Movement of people.
The Equator separates which two hemispheres?
What are the northern and southern hemispheres?
This is a body of thick, dense ice that is slow moving. Many were formed thousands of years ago.
What is a glacier?
The "M" in the acronym HOMES, stands for which Great Lake located to the east of Wisconsin?
What is Lake Michigan?
This is used to determine the most common products produced at a location.
What is a resource/product map?
The Eiffel Tower is an example of this theme.
What is Place?
If the coordinates are 45N, 65W what two hemispheres are you in?
What is the northern and western hemispheres?
A valley is a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it, but this is a deep gorge with steep walls on both sides and typically with a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
This ocean lies west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the most common map used in a social studies or history class.
What is historical map?
When the land is torn up in order to build a new highway.
This is another name for "latitude".
What is parallel?
Unlike this stretch of land that is mostly flat and does not have any elevation or depression, prairies are mostly treeless. It can be a tall grass, mid grass or a short grass prairie.
What is a plain?
These two states do not make up the Continental United States?
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
You will use this map to determine the elevation of terrain.
What is a topographic map?