Themes of Geography
This theme covers how humans modify the environment and how the environment affects us.
What is the Human-Environment Interaction?
This tool is used to tell you the cardinal directions.
What is a compass?
This type of map shows you what the land looks like.
What is physical?
The city we live in.
What is Tarpon Springs?
This theme covers where things exist on the Earth in terms of relative and absolute.
What is location?
This part of a map shows you how small it is compared to the actual land it shows.
What is the scale?
This map shows you how humans split up land.
What is political?
This person "found" America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This theme covers the characteristics of the land, such as biomes.
What is regions?
This part of the map shows you what details the map includes and shows.
What is the map key/ legend?
This type of map shows you data that is being studied.
What is thematic?
These numbers are used to show an exact location on Earth.
What is coordinates?
This theme covers the physical characteristics of the land and how humans have changed the land.
What is place?
This part of the map shows you which direction the map is facing by using a compass rose.
What is orientation?
This type of map would show you where a state and countries borders are.
What is political?
These lines go horizontally across the earth and measure the distance above or below the Equator.
What is Latitude?
This themes covers the transportation of people and ideas across the Earth.
What is movement?
This part of the map tells you how old the map is.
What is the date?
You would use this type of map to show population sizes.
What is thematic?
The Earth is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 65-70?