Vocabulary
5 Themes
Tools
Physical Geography
Culture
100
The transfer of heat in the atmosphere by the upward movement of air is called this.
What is convection?
100
This theme involves the ability to determine where something is.
What is location
100
Geographers use this to reduce distortion when they draw a flat map.
What is a map projection?
100
This mountain contains lava that changes the surface of the Earth when it erupts.
What is a volcano?
100
America is often called this because of all the different cultures live there.
What is a melting pot?
200
This them is similar to the first but deals more with the people that live there.
What is place?
200
This type of map shows cities, states, countries, and boundaries.
What is a political map?
200
This culture located in Australia and is based on a unique relationship with the land.
What is the Aboriginals?
300
A type of government in which people elect representatives to the governing agency.
What is a democracy?
300
This theme studies how individual work with their environment improve society.
What is human-environment interaction?
300
Wichita Falls is south of Burkburnett. I just used an example of this type of location.
What is Relative Location.
300
This is another name for a hurricane like storm in the Pacific.
What is a typhoon?
300
This country is the second most populated country in the world. Its primary religion is Hinduism.
What is India?
400
This them focuses on the migration patterns of people.
What is movement?
400
This tool is round and gives a 3-D representation of the Earth.
What is a globe?
400
This range contains the tallest mountain in the world.
What is the Himalayas?
400
This culture has 3 major religions incorporated into it. Those religions are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
What is the Chinese Culture?
500
Rust is an example of this natural occurrence.
What is chemical weathering?
500
This theme focuses on physical geography, human geography(impact), and human-environment interaction.
What is Region?
500
This tool operates from space and is able to guide people on there travels
What is G.P.S.?
500
This geographic feature covers over 70% of the Earth
What is the ocean?
500
This continent contains many different countries with different languages and cultures. However, unite themselves in a trade organization with a single currency.
What is Europe?