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The Landscape of America
Themes of Geography
Themes of Geography
Map Basics
Map Basics
100
The best place to begin your study of American history is this.
What is the geography of America?
100
Location answers this question.
What is, "Where am I?"
100
Building a dam, cutting down a tree, or sitting in the sun are examples of this.
What is human-environment interaction.
100
Physical maps these features of an area.
What are mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, and other physical features of an area?
100
This is the longitude line that passes through Greenwich, England, and measures 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
200
Geography involves this.
What is the relationship between people and their environment?
200
This describes where a certain area is in relation to another area.
What is relative location?
200
The book uses this city as its example for the themes of geography.
Where is Boston?
200
This kind of map shows countries, states, provinces, counties, districts, or towns.
What is a political map?
200
This is the latitude line that measures 0 degrees.
What is the equator?
300
The Northwest includes these three states.
What are Alaska, Washington, and Oregon?
300
This refers to the physical and human factors that make one area different from another.
What is place?
300
This is the absolute location of Boston.
Where is approximately 42 degrees north latitude and 71 degrees west longitude.
300
Maps that illustrate such things as economic activity, migration, battles, and changing national boundaries are called this.
What are historical maps?
300
Distances on the map are not correct in this map projection.
What is the Homolosine projection?
400
The Northeast region includes these nine states.
What are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey?
400
Name at least three characteristics of a region.
What are political division, climate, language, and religion?
400
This is the name of Boston's International Airport.
What is Logan International Airport?
400
GPS stands fro this.
What is Global Positioning System?
400
Textbook maps commonly use this projection.
What is the Robinson projection?
500
Hawaii is part of this region.
What is the West?
500
The shifting of people, goods, and ideas from one place to anohter is the definition of this.
What is movement?
500
Boston is known as this because of the movement of ideas.
What is the Cradle of Liberty?
500
A scale shows the ratio between a unit of length on a map and this.
What is a unit of distance on the earth?
500
You live in these two hemispheres.
Where are the Northern and the Western hemispheres?