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Five Themes of Geography
Mapping
Types of Geography
Vocabulary
Give Examples
100
A part of the world that has one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is Region?
100
The feature on a map that shows the cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
100
The branch of geography that studies the world's people, communities, and landscapes
What is Human Geography?
100
A ball-shaped model of the entire planet.
What is a globe?
100
Give an example of relative location
What is (example)
200
Describes where something is. Can be relative or absolute.
What is location?
200
The feature on a map that tells how big a map is compared to the real world.
What is a scale?
200
The branch of geography that studies weather
What is meteorology?
200
Lines that go East to West and run parallel with the Equator
What is latitude?
200
Give an example of what a human geographer might study
What is people, communities, religions, cities, customs
300
How and why people, ideas, and things move
What is movement?
300
The feature on a map that shows how parts of the map are labeled
What is a legend/key?
300
The branch of geography that is the science of making maps
What is cartography?
300
A flat drawing that shows all or part of Earth's surface
What is a map?
300
Give an example of a latitude/longitude location
What is (answer)
400
Describes the features that make a sight unique. What it looks like when you get there
What is place?
400
Shows exactly where something is on the map. Helps with absolute location.
What is latitude and longitude?
400
The branch of geography that studies water on Earth
What is hydrology?
400
Lines that go North to South and run perpendicular with the Prime Meridian
What is Longitude?
400
Give the names of 4 continents
What is S. America, N. America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
500
Describes how people interact with their environments.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
500
The lines that cross in the middle of the world. One is up and down, the other is side to side.
What are the Equator and Prime Meridian?
500
The branch of geography that studies the world's physical features, such as land forms, climates, bodies of water, soils, and plants.
What is physical geography?
500
The physical and human features that define an area and make it different from other places
What is landscape?
500
Name the 5 themes of geography
What is location, place, movement region, human-environment interaction