What is this image called?
What is a Compass Rose?
This type of map is used to show mountains, lakes, deserts, etc.
What is a physical map?
Location, Place, Movement, Human Environment Interaction, and Region
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Numbers found on this map's X axis
What are 12-24
This is the region of the US that Rhode Island is found in.
What is the Northeast?
A box that explains colors or symbols used on a map?
What is a Map Key? (or Legend)
This type of map shows country/state borders, city boundaries, and names.
What is a political map?
Location can be divided into these two categories.
What are Relative and Absolute?
The imaginary line that runs north and south at 0ยบ but divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is the prime meridian?
What is a refugee?
A person forced out of their home
Imaginary lines that run north and south on a globe
What are lines of longitude?
This type of thematic map may show wind patterns, rainfall, and areas of high or low air pressure.
What is a weather map?
Every place on earth can be described by its physical and human characteristics. This theme is
Place
The information that lets you know how big an area on a map actually is.
What is a map scale?
What is the definition of immigration
When a person moves INTO a country
The name for the imaginary line that runs east to west at 0 degrees latitude on a map or a globe?
What is the equator?
Name this type of thematic map.
What is a topographic map
An example of modifying the environment is
Building a school, building a road, etc
While orbiting the Earth, four of these are used at one time by GPS to pinpoint your location
What are satellites?
What is the definition of emigration
When a person moves OUT of a country
The feature that tells you what the map you are looking at represents?
What is the title?
Climate maps, population maps, and resource maps are all this type of map.
What is a thematic map/
A group of areas or places with similar characteristics
What is a region?
What maps would be best used if you were going to navigate a water way?
What is a nautical chart?
Regions of the Earth that are defined by the climate and what lives and grows there because of that climate?
What are Biomes?