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Five Themes of Geography
Using Globes
Using Maps
How to Read a Map
Miscellaneous
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1. Location 2. Place 3. Human/Environment Interaction 4. Movement 5. Regions
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
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A model of the earth that shows the earth's shape, lands, distances, and directions as they truly relate to one another. Can locate places and determine distances.
What is a globe?
100
Ship or airplane route that is the shortest distance between two points on the Earth.
What is the great circle route?
100
Explains the lines, symbols and colors used on a map.
What is a map key?
100
A person who studies the earth and its people.
What is a geographer?
200
Geographers study the world in spatial terms. Knowing this helps you to orient yourself in space and to develop an awareness of the world around you.
What is location?
200
One-half of the globe/earth.
What is the hemisphere?
200
A way of showing the earth on a flat piece of paper.
What is a projection?
200
A symbol on a map that tells you the cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) and sometimes the intermediate directions (NW, NE, SW, SE).
What is the compass rose?
200
The study of the world's people, places, and environments.
What is geography?
300
Includes those features and characteristics that give an area its own identity or personality. These can be physical characteristics -- such as landforms, climate, plants, and animals -- or human characteristics --such as human characteristics -- such as language, religion, architecture, music, politics, and way of life. Also further group these so they are united by one or more characteristics.
What is a place and what is a region?
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An imaginary horizontal line that circles the earth like stacked rings. Shows distance measured in degrees north or south. Also called parallels.
What is latitude?
300
This projection shows land shapes fairly accurately, but not size or distance. Areas far from the Equator are distorted. Very useful for sea travel.
What is the Mercator Projection?
300
A measuring line, helps you determine distance on a map. Each map has its own individual line.
What is a scale?
300
An imaginary line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
400
Geographers also examine human systems or how people have shaped our world. They look at how boundary lines are determined and analyze why people settle in certain places and not in others.
What is movement?
400
Lines of latitude and longitude cross each other in this form over the entire Earth.
What is a grid system?
400
This map projection shows continents close to their true shapes and sizes. Distances, especially the oceans are less accurate. Very useful if ones wants to compare land area data about the continents.
What is the Goode's Interrupted Projection?
400
One of the two types of common general purpose maps. Shows the names and boundaries of countries and often identify major physical features.
What is a political map?
400
Naming the latitude and longitude lines that cross at that place.
What is absolute location?
500
Geographers look at how and why people change their surroundings. Humans have harmed the environment in some cases. The physical environment affects humans as well, such as quality of land or natural disasters.
What is the human/environment interaction?
500
An imaginary vertical line that run from pole to pole and crisscross parallels. Distance is measured in degrees East or West. Also called Meridians.
What is longitude?
500
Two map projections with less distortion. Areas most distorted are near the North and South poles. Used as reference maps in books and atlases.
What are the Robinson Projection and the Winkel Tripel Projections?
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One of the two most common general purpose maps. Displays landforms and water features using colors. These colors show relief -- how flat or rugged the land surface is. In addition, the colors show elevation -- the height above sea level. A key explains what each color and symbol stands for.
What is a physical map?
500
An imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?