5 Themes
Vocab
Continents & Oceans
Maps
RANDOM!!!
100
Maine is located in which region in the United States?
What is the Northeast?
100
The study of the physical and human features and interactions of the Earth.
What is geography?
100
The largest ocean, which is represented by "1"
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Type of map that shows naturally made landmarks.
What is a physical map?
100
The imaginary horizontal lines that are used to determine an absolute location, and are parallel to each other.
What is latitude?
200
An example of movement in Maine.
Example:
What is an avocado being flown to Maine on a plane from Mexico?
200
0° (horizontal)
What is the Equator?
200
The ocean that touches the coast of Maine is represented by "2", and goes by this name.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
Type of map that shows boundaries such as countries, states, and counties.
What is a political map?
200
The 5 things that the acronym Mr. Help stands for.
What is Movement, Region, Human-Environment Interactions, Location, and Place?
300
44.6691° N, 70.1490°W are the coordinates of the University of Maine at Farmington, which show this theme of geography.
What is location?
300
A specific, usually exact location of something or someplace on Earth.
What is absolute location?
300
The world most recently accepted this ocean as the 5th one.
What is the Southern Ocean?
300
The imaginary vertical lines that are used to determine an absolute location, and are parallel to each other.
What is longitude?
300
The cardinal directions, which can be remembered by using the phrases below:
Never Eat Soggy Waffles
Never Eat Salty Waffles
Never Eat Soggy Watermelon
What are North, South, East, and West?
400
2 human features, and 1 physical feature in this aerial picture of Biddeford that would describe place.
Example:
What are roads and houses?
What is a river?
400
0° (vertical)
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
The continent represented in purple.
What is Africa?
400
All maps have a compass rose, which show where something is located compared to something else by using this.
What is cardinal direction?
400
A half of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
500
An example of how the environment affects humans.
Example:
What is a hurricane destroying houses, and flooding towns.
500
Three examples of physical features.
Example:
What are mountains, rivers, and canyons?
500
Which TWO continents are represented in green?
What is Asia and Europe?
500
All maps have these 4 things: map key, compass rose,______, and ______?
What is scale and title?
500
The 2 hemispheres that Maine is located in.
What are the northern and western hemispheres?