Coined 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece, this word combines geo that means "earth," with graphia, meaning a "way of writing, drawing, or describing."
What is geography?
100
To give this you an answer you use coordinates of longitude and latitude. For example, Boston is approxiamtely 42" north latitude and 71" west longitude.
What is absolute location?
100
Shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, and other physical features of an area.
What is a physical map?
100
These represent items such as capital cities, battle sites, or economic activities.
What are symbols?
100
Imaginary lines that run N and S around the globe and known as the meridians.
What are longitude lines?
200
This country ranks third in both total area and population in the world.
What is the United States?
200
This refers to the physical and human factors that make one area different from the another. Physical characteristics are physical setting, animals, plants, and weather. Human characteristics include culture and things people made including language, the arts, and architecture.
What is place?
200
Shows political units, such as countries, states, provinces, counties, districts, and towns. Each unit is usually a different color, represented by a symbol, or shown in a different typeface.
What is a political map?
200
Words or phrases that explain various items or activities on a map.
What are labels?
200
Imaginary lines that run E to W around the globe and known as parallels. The equator is one that circles the earth halfway between the North & South Poles at 0 degrees latitude. The tropics of Cancer & Capricorn are parallels that form boundaries at the tropics a region that stays warm all year.
What are latitude lines?
300
All the natural features on the earth such as, land, resources, climate, and vegetation.
What is physical geography?
300
As large as a continent or as small as a neighborhood. It shares certain characteristics that set it apart like political division, climate, language, or religion.
What is a region?
300
Illustrates things such as economic activity, migrations, battles, and changing national boundaries.
What is a historical map?
300
Shows which way the directions north(N), south(S), east(E), and west(W) point on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300
This is a term for half the globe.It can be divided in Northern & Southern separated by the equator, or Eastern of Western. The U.S. is located in the Northern & Western.
What is hemisphere?
400
Citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruits, lemons, and limes grow best in places with almost no frost or wind.
What is warm climate?
400
This refers to the shifting of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another. It causes ideas to travel from place to place.
What is movement?
400
These show a variety of information on a map such as, population density or physical growth of a country.
What are colors?
400
Shows the ratio between units of length on the map and a unit of distance on the earth. A typical one-incher, indicates the number of miles and kilometers that length represents on the map.
What is a scale?
400
A way of showing the curved surfaces of the earth on a flat map. All of types of these maps distort some aspect of the earth's surface.
What is a projection?
500
Approximately three out of every four oranges and grapefruits grown in the U.S. are produced in this state.
What is Florida?
500
This refers to ways people interact with their environment, such as building a dam, cutting down trees, or even sitting in the sun.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
These indicate political boundaries, roads and highways, human movement, and rivers and other waterways.
What are lines?
500
Lists and explains the symbols, lines, and colors on a map.
What is a legend or key?
500
Textbooks most commonly use this projection showing the entire earth with nearly the true sizes and shapes of continents and oceans. However, the shapes of the landforms near the poles appear flat.