Five Themes
Vocabulary
Continents
Misc.
Everything Else
100

This tells us where something is.

What is location?

100

The lines measure whether or not something is North or South of the equator.

What are latitude lines?

100
This continent is home to the United States.
What is North America?
100
This is used to tell us direction.
What is a compass rose?
100
This ocean is located off the coast of India.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
This tells us what it looks like including physical and human characteristics.
What is place?
200

The lines measure whether a place is East or West of the Prime Meridian.

What are longitude lines?

200
This continent is located below the continent we live on.
What is South America?
200

This type of location uses latitude and longitude.

What is absolute location?

200

This ocean is the most northern.

What is the Arctic Ocean?

300

How ideas, people, goods move from place to place.

What is movement?

300

This is where the equator is located.

What is 0 degrees latitude?

300
This continent is also a country?
What is Australia?
300
This continent is the largest and has the biggest population.
What is Asia?
300
This describes the people of a place like their culture, religion, language.
What are human characteristics?
400

How people adapt or modify the environment.

What is human-environment interaction?

400

This is where the Prime Meridian is located.

What is 0 degrees longitude?

400
This continent is small, but has a lot of countries on it including Italy and Spain.
What is Europe?
400
This ocean is located East of North America.
What is the Atlantic?
400
This ocean wraps around the globe so that it is west of North America and East of Asia.
What is the Pacific?
500

What areas have in common, boundaries, borders?

What is region?

500

This type of location tells where something is in relation to something else.

What is a relative location?

500
This Continent does not have any full-time residents.
What is Antarctica?
500
This includes features like mountains, lakes, deserts.
What are physical characteristics?
500
This continent is home to the longest river in the world - the Nile
What is Africa?