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What is the most accurate map of our world?
What is a Globe.
What theme of geography would describe the point where a line of latitude and longitude cross?
What is absolute location. Remember, absolute location is the exact location of a place on earth, like the name of a town, mountain peak, or coordinates for a location.
This type of map uses lines to show elevation of an area.
What is a topographic map? Lines that are closer together indicate steep elevation gain, lines that are far apart indicate flat terrain.
What does every map have?
What is a title?
The North Pole is the farthest point north on our Earth. At what degree does it lie?
What is 90 degrees north? The opposite is true of the South Pole, which lies at 90 degrees south.
What two rivers run through the Fertile Crescent? Spelling counts!
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
The Flathead Valley is know for its delicious cherries that we harvest every year. These get transported to different places in the world for people to enjoy.
What is Movement. Movement is the transportation of people, ideas, or goods from one place to another.
These types of maps show man made borders, and may show things like counties, states, countries, or capitals.
What is a political map?
This helps you "Make Sense" of a map
What is the "Key"? A key will show you what different symbols, colors, or images mean on a map. For example, a star might mean a state capital.
The line that is at 0 degrees north/south.
What is the equator?
A person who has no permanent home, traveling from place to place?
What is a Nomad?
Kerr Dam on the southern end of Flathead Lake controls the level of Flathead Lake. What theme of geography describes this phenomenon?
What is human-environment interaction? When humans change or alter their environment, or when the environment changes or affects humans, that is called human environment interaction.
Physical Maps show landforms, and use colors to show elevations. What color shows low elevation and what color shows high elevation?
What is green for low elevation? What is orange/brown high elevation?
Draw and label the four directions on a compass properly.
North, South East, West.
What is North to South? Remember, although lines of longitude are in degrees West and East, they run from North to South on a map.
What is convection?
Mountains, lakes, rivers...these all also known as?
What are physical features? Physical features are landforms. These fall into the theme of place.
Name three things a climate map might show?
What is precipitation, sunlight, temperature, snowfall, etc?
Why do we need a scale on a map?
A scale will show you how big a map is compared to real life.
You use it to determine the actual distance represented on a map. For example, an inch on a map may represent 500 miles.
What is the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Do you remember the word for "Land between the rivers"?
What is Mesopotamia? The fertile crescent is also known as Mesopotamia.
What theme do human characteristics fall under, and what is an example of a human characteristic?
What is Place? What is population, language, common jobs, etc.
Write down all 6 map types.
What is resource/economic, political, topographic, road, physical, climate.
The highest number of degrees that lines of Longitude can go to.
What is 180 degrees? Lines of longitude go for 180 degrees around earth. If you add up 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west, you get 360 degrees total.