Map Skills
How many Continents are there?
What is 7
How many oceans are there?
What is 5
How do you remember the 5 themes of Geography?
What is MR. HELP?
(Movement, Region, Human Environmental Interactions, Location, Place)
What is Movement?
What is the movement of people, places, and ideas?
What is location?
What is where something is?
What are the 3 types of Map Projections?
A Map Projection is when you take to globe and make a flat version of it.
What is conical (cone shaped), planner (top of globe near poles), and compromise (rectangle shaped; what pirate maps usually look like)?
What is the equator?
What is the imaginary line that goes across the globe horizontally (crosses South America, South Africa, and Japan)?
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is the line that goes from the north pole to the South Pole, crossing through West Africa?
What is Place?
what is the natural and human characteristics of a location?
(natural- mountains and oceans)
(human- culture and clothing style)
What is Region?
What is an area with definable characteristics that set it apart from other areas?
What are the 3 Compromise Projections?
Compromise Map Projections are the flat and rectangle version of the globe. (you may have one in your classroom)
What is Mercator (sizes are distorted), Homolosine (distances are incorrect), and Robinson (land near poles are flat)?
What are the 4 hemispheres?
What is North, South, East, West hemispheres?
What is a Globe?
What is the most accurate version of the Earth?
What is Human Environmental Interactions?
What is how human engage with their envronment?
a location compared to another location
What is relative location?
What are the 3 Basic Maps?
What is Political (shows boundaries like between Mississippi and Alabama), Physical (shows mountains and lakes), and Thematic (shows a topic with colors, lines, and dots)?
Lines running East and West that measure distance north and south of the Equator
A device that indicates direction
What is a compass?
What are the three types of regions?
What are perceptual, formal, and functional?
What is adaptation?
What is changing ourselves to live in our environment?
What are the 3 types of thematic maps?
What are qualitative, cartogram, and flow-line thematic maps?
Lines running North and South that measure distance East and West of the Prime Meridian
What are lines of Longitude?
a term that describes the study of earth's physical features, spatial distributions, the characteristics of the humans that inhabit it, and how humans and their environments interact with one another
What is geography?
an exact location
What is modification?
What is changing the environment so we can live there?