Maps
This type of map shows landforms
What is a physical map?
This theme involves determining where a place is.
What is Location?
North, South, East, and West are these directions.
What is cardinal directions?
The imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
Half the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
This type of map uses colors to show countries, states, cities, etc.
What is a political map?
This theme involves how goods, people, and ideas get to new places
What is movement?
This shows what symbols, lines, and colors mean on a map.
What is a key or a legend?
Name for the first line of longitude.
What is Prime Meridian?
Shows where an area is in relation to another area.
What is relative location?
This type of map shows special information about a particular topic
What is a thematic map?
This theme describes human and physical features of a location.
What is place?
The northern boundary of the tropics.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole and measure east and west.
What is longitude?
4 topics included when focusing on physical geography
What is land, resources, climate, and vegetation?
This is found on every map to determine direction.
What is a compass rose?
This theme points out characteristics shared by places near each other.
What is region?
These are the intermediate directions.
What is Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest?
These lines run east and west but measure north and south.
What is latitude?
3 ways humans interact with the environment
What is modify, adapt to, and depend on the environment?
This shows the number of miles represented by a certain distance on the map.
What is the scale of miles?
This theme describes how people modify, adapt to, or depend on their surroundings.
What is human-environment interaction?
Tropic of Capricorn
What is the southern boundary of the Tropics?
You determine this by using the coordinates of longitude and latitude.
What is absolute location?
2 themes of geography found in the study of human geography
What is human-environment interaction and movement?