The 5 Themes
Terms
Additional Terms
Continents
Oceans
100

The position on Earth’s surface.

Location

100

Exactly where you are on the globe.

Absolute location

100

The only continent that is made up of one country.

Australia

100

The continent we call home.

North America

100

The ocean that lies between the Americas and Europe & Africa.

Atlantic

200

Locations having distinctive features.

Place

200

Where you are in relation to another place.

Relative location

200

The continent North of Africa.

Europe

200

The largest continent.

Asia

200

The ocean that lies between the Americas and Asia.

Pacific

300

A unit on the earth’s surface that has unifying characteristics, places with common characteristics.

Region

300

Lines on a map or globe that run east to west.

Latitude

300

The study of the land, and how humans interact with it.

Geography

300

The frozen Continent.

Antarctica

300

The ocean that lies south of Asia and east of Africa.

Indian

400

The way people, products, and information move from one place to another.

Movement

400

Lines on a map or globe that run north to south.

Longitude

400

Boat, train, car, phones, computers, mail, tv, radio, etc.

Ways Movement happens.

400

The second largest continent.

Africa

400

The ocean that lies across the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

Southern

500

The relationship between people and their environment.

Human/Environment Interactions

500

Landforms, climate, terrain are examples of this.

Physical characteristics

500

Language, economics, government, how people live are examples of this.

Human characteristics

500

The continent that lies west of Africa.

South America

500

The ocean that lies at the top of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Arctic