Maps
This will tell you whether a centimeter is 10 kilometers or 10 miles.
What is a scale?
This theme lets you know what a certain location is like.
What is Place?
These systems of belief can create borders between groups.
What is religion?
This is a large, flowing body of water that usually empties into the ocean.
What is a river?
The four main, basic landforms.
What are mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains?
Though these map pieces are invisible, they are vital to finding where you are.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
This theme could focus on animal migrations, spread of disease, or even how many pencils arrived in the US last year.
What is Movement?
What is language?
This is a smaller body of water that is bordered by water on three sides.
What is a bay?
A piece of land that is bordered on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
This kind of map will show you where nations begin and end, with pretty colors as a bonus!
What is a political map?
This theme loves using latitude and longitude.
What is Location?
Boundaries placed along a river, mountain range, or coastline are an example of this.
What are physical borders?
The mouth of a river that empties into an ocean, sea, or lake.
What is a delta?
The low place between mountains.
What is a valley?
The first is an icon placed on a location, the second is a piece that lets you understand.
What is a symbol and a legend?
This theme could focus on a range of things, from the extent of whitetail deer habitat, to how much of the US is still covered in snow.
What is Region?
Different countries can either fight for, trade for, or share these things.
What are resources?
A very slowly moving river of ice.
What is a glacier?
A group or chain of islands clustered together.
What is an archipelago?
This kind of map is designed to point out a detail to the reader. That point is up to the cartographer to decide.
What is a thematic map?
This theme focuses on things like pollution, human footprint, climate change, and deforestation.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
These imaginary things are sometimes used to arbitrarily place borders.
What are lines of longitude and latitude?
A long, narrow sea inlet bordered by steep cliffs.
What is a fjord?
Barren land eroded by water and worn by sand and dust on the winds.
What are badlands?