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Globes and Maps & Charts
Map Skills
Geography Themes
Our Earth
Landforms
100
Displaying a round earth on a flat paper is called
What is projection
100
This is used to help you read a map
What is a key
100
Latitude and longitude are part of this major theme of geography
What is location
100
The earth rotates around the sun. The tilt of this determines the seasons.
What is the axis
100
These make up the three layers of the Earth.
What is the core, mantle, and crust
200
Our earth is divided into four of these
What is hemispheres
200
This tells the direction of the map.
What is compass rose
200
Place describes more than where a location is, it also describes this
What is the place LIKE
200
There are four of these in a year.
What is seasons.
200
Melted rock within the Earth's crust
What is magma
300
These lines measure north and south of the equator
What is latitude
300
This tells you a distance on a map.
What is a scale.
300
This describes how humans and the environment work together.
What is Human Environmental Interaction
300
This is when the time when day and night are of equal length in both hemispheres
What is an equinox
300
This is an elevated piece of land that is flat.
What is a plateau
400
There are several types of graphs you can use. This kind is dots that are connected with a line.
What is a line graph
400
Latitude and Longitude give you coordinates so you can find any place on earth. This gives you a what
What is absolute location
400
What factors do geographers use to define a region
What is landscape, climate, language, religion, political boundaries, etc.
400
This is the planets path around the sun.
What is an orbit.
400
This is caused by nature and can destroy land and claim lives.
What is a natural disaster
500
We are located in which two hemispheres.
What is the Northern and Western
500
This line is at 0 degrees latitude
What is the Prime Meridian
500
What are the themes of geography?
What is Location, Place, Movement, Human Environmental Interaction, Region
500
This is the actual length of time it takes the earth to revolve around the sun.
What is 264 1/4 days.
500
The state of Florida is surrounded on three sides making it this
What is peninsula