Themes of Geography
These include topics such as place, region, human-environment interaction, location, and movement.
What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
Can be found on maps in order to determine cardinal directions, helping get a sens of which way is which.
What is a compass rose?
This can be found with a simple calculation:
Total births / total population
What is birth rate?
This continent includes countries like Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela.
What is North America?
Movement within a country's borders.
What is internal migration?
This refers to the exact location of a place, person, or thing; often found by using coordinates or a GPS.
What is absolute location?
This type of map shows recognized boundaries of cities, states, nations, territories, etc.
What is a political map?
Decreased financial stability, cultural norms/values, low marriage rates, higher average age in a population, and poor lifestyle choices (smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption) would impact ________
What are factors that influence birth rates?
This continent includes the nation of Latvia.
What is Europe?
This is found by calculating many factors to determine how long the average person will live in a country/region.
What is life expectancy?
Position east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
This type of map shows changes in elevation throughout the landscape, often times through the use of contour lines.
What is a topographic map?
This sorts countries into five stages by comparing their birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
This continent includes the country of Laos.
What is Asia
________ tells us the difference in elevation between two contour lines.
What is a contour interval?
Described by mountains, rivers, hills, climate, fauna, or flora.
What are physical characteristics of a place?
What is a climate map?
This graph breaks a country's age data into pieces in order to analyze the overall population stability of said country's future.
What is a population pyramid?
This is the name of the YouTube series we would watch on Mondays to get background on a country of choice.
What is Geography Now?
The ___________ _______________ in India is very high, meaning many people live there.
What is the population density in India?
An example of this type of region would be a USPS post office which delivers mail to the surrounding area.
What is a functional region?
This type of climate is characterized by high annual temperature swings/fluctuations, are typically found in the northern hemisphere, moderate precipitation which manifests as both rain and snow, and is famous for providing four seasons throughout the calendar year.
What is a continental climate?
This stage of the DTM would likely include a country with a birth rate of ~11 and a death rate ~8.
What would an example of a stage four country in the DTM be?
Nations that exist in this region include Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada.
What are nations exist in the Caribbean?
This major city's coordinates are ~55 degrees north, ~37 degrees east
Hint: wsomco
What coordinates would take you to Moscow?