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5 Themes
Maps
Reading Maps
The World
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100
What a place is near or what direction is a place from another place.
What is location?
100
Show countries, capitals, and political boundaries.
What is a political map?
100
Anything that stands for something else.
What is symbol?
100
Large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
100
The study of the earth and everything on it.
What is geography?
200
Something generalized by characteristics it has in common.
What is place?
200
Physical maps that use different colors to show how high or low the land is.
What is an elevation map?
200
Relative size of a map that tells you how much smaller map distances are than real distances.
What is a scale?
200
Half a sphere, or half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
200
The use of lines of latitude and longitude to find where you are on the earth.
What is absolute location?
300
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.
What is region?
300
Show landforms and bodies of water such as mountains, deserts, plains, rivers, and oceans.
What is a physical map?
300
North, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
300
The line that circles the earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the equator?
300
The relationship of one place to other places on the earth.
What is relative location?
400
How people, goods, and ideas travel around the world.
What is movement?
400
Show how particular things are spread out throughout parts of the world.
What is a distribution map?
400
Use this to find out what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a map key?
400
Line that divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
400
These help you to determine the relative locations of places.
What are directions?
500
The relationship between people and the land on which they live.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
This type of maps provide information about particular subjects.
What is special purpose maps?
500
NE, NW, SE, SW
What are intermediate directions?
500
Number of oceans on the earth.
What is 4?
500
True or False? A symbol that stands for one thing on one map may stand for something completely different on another map.
What is true?