Vocabulary
Geography means
What is to describe the earth?
The first thing you look at when examining a map
What is look at the Key and Title?
This imaginary line separates the northern and Southern Hemisphere
What is the Equator?
This theme of Geography has two types, Absolute and Relative.
What is Location?
This type of map shows physical landforms
What is a physical map?
Exact place where a geographic feature is located in is
What is Absolute Location?
The part of a map that shows you direction in North, South, East, and West.
What is a compass or compass rose?
This imaginary line separates the Eastern and Western hemisphere
What is the Prime Meridian?
This theme of Geography looks at how items, people or ideas are transported
What is movement?
This type of map shows man made borders and cities
What is a political map?
These locations are at 90 degrees N and 90 degrees South latitude
What are the North and South Pole?
A scale shows you what on a map
What are distances between cities?
This line of longitude affects the date when crossing it
What is the International Date line?
This theme of geography describes similarities between different cities within the same area.
What is region?
This type of map focuses on specific information
What is a thematic map?
Someone who makes maps
Who is a Cartographer?
To find a city on a map you need to use what
What are longitude and Latitude lines?
These lines of latitude are at 23.5 degrees North and South
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn?
This theme of Georaphy talks about how to describe a location
What is place?
This type of map shows navigational routes for sailors and pilots
What is a navigational map?
Longitude and latitude lines have different names called
What are Parallels and Meridians?
The two hemispheres that South America is located in is what
What is the North West hemisphere?
For every 1 degree of latitude it is how many miles
What is 69 miles?
This theme of Geography Talks about how people manipulate the world around them
What is Human Environment Interaction?
This type of map shows the movement of people or goods
What is a flowline map?