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Unit 1 Geography
5 Themes of Geography
Mapping
Latin America
100
The way you look at something
Perspective
100
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Movement Location Regions Place Human and Environment Interaction
100
What are the two broad categories of maps that all others fall under? (2 answers)
General Maps Thematic Maps
100
Covers 1/6 of the worlds land-surface area
Latin America
200
The scenery of a place
Landscape
200
This theme answers the question: Where is it located?
Location
200
This type of map displays country boundaries, cities, states etc.
Political Map
200
It is thought to have been a type of vacation home for Inca royalty.
Macchu Picchu
300
The spread of products and ideas across the globe
Globalization
300
This theme answers the question: What is it like there?
Place
300
Displays the density of people in a given location.
Population Maps
300
They have the responsibility of cleaning drugs out of the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro in anticipation the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Pacifying Police Units
400
Lines used to measure the Earth in degree North and South of the equator.
Latitude Lines
400
This theme answers the question: How and why are places connected to teach other?
Movement
400
The world's first known map.
Imago Mundi
400
He conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
500
The distribution and characteristics of the world's people.
Human Geography
500
What are the 3 subsets of Human and Environment Interaction?
1. Humans adapt 2. Humans depend 3. Humans modify
500
The world's first atlas
Theatreum Terrarum Orbis of 1570
500
Another name for middle America.
Mesoamerica