Maps
Continents/Oceans
Five Themes
Globes
100
What does the white box represent on this map?
What is a map legend/key?
100
How many continents are there on Earth?
What is 7?
100
Building, roads, clothing, & actions of people are considered what type of characteristics?
What is Physical Characteristics?
100
This imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200
The directions north, east, south, and west. They are also called cardinal points.
What are Cardinal Directions?
200
Which ocean splits North American and Asia?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Trains, planes, emails, busses are which theme of geography?
What is movement?
200
These geographic coordinated are used to define any location on Earth.
What are lines of Latitude & Longitude?
300
This map show landforms, bodies of water, and other geographical features.
What is a Physical Map?
300
Which continent is the biggest?
What is Asia?
300
60 degrees N, 80 degrees E is considered what type of location?
What is absolute location?
300
These two imaginary lines around the earth at approximately 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south of the equator.
What are the Tropics (Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn)?
400
This map shows the government borders for countries and states.
What is a Political Map?
400
Which oceans does the Prime Meridian run through?
What is the Artic, Atlantic, and Southern Ocean?
400
Changes that a person makes in their life to better fit their environment.
What is human adaptation?
400
An imaginary line upon which the Earth rotates.
What is an axis?
500
This symbol shows the cardinal and/or intermediate directions on a map or chart.
What is a Compass Rose?
500
Which continent is also a country?
What is Australia?
500
Southwestern United States is considered which theme of geography?
What is region?
500
North of the equator, south of the equator, east of the prime meridian, and west of the prime meridian are considered what type of areas on Earth?
What are Hemispheres?