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Five Themes
Five Subfields
Cartography
Mapping Concepts
Miscellaneous
100
This theme has to do with where you are.
What is location
100
How humans interact with each other and their environment.
What is human geography?
100
A person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer
100
Maps have this many elements
What is five
100
This aspect of cartography focuses on putting important information in prominent places on a map.
What is hierarchy.
200
This theme describes what an area is like.
What is place
200
Physical geography is also known as
What is Earth science
200
This is the biggest reason geography expanded outside of mapmaking.
What is technology.
200
the decision about what to include and exclude is called
What is bias
200
The beliefs and behaviors of a group are called
What is culture.
300
Trade and immigration are covered under this theme.
What is movement
300
The study of how humans affect the landscape and its resources is part of
What is environmental geography
300
If you imagine what your house looks like on the inside you have created
What is a mental map.
300
This zooms in on a particular area on a map
What is an insert
300
This demographic visual shows age, gender and population.
What is a population pyramid.
400
An area that has similarity of climate, language or religion
What is a region
400
A person trained in forecasting the weather.
What is a meteorologist
400
Ptolemy is credited with creating
What is the first world map.
400
This type of map shows how many people live in a particular area.
What is a population density map
400
The reasons people leave a place
What is a push factor
500
perceptual, functional and formal are three types of
What are regions
500
These are different than the five subfields because they are five tools for studying any topic.
What are the five themes.
500
Thinking about the world based on space and objects
What is spatial thinking
500
These lines on the global grid run east/west
What are latitude lines
500
Christopher Columbus thought he landed here in 1492.
What is the Indies.