5 Themes of Geography
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on the way people, ideas, and goods travel from place to place.
What is movement?
A two-dimensional graphic representation of selected parts of the Earth's surface
What is a Map?
Half of a sphere.
What is a hemisphere?
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on a particular place and knowing where you are based on your surroundings.
What is Relative location?
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on how humans adapt to, modify, and interact with their environment.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
What is a globe?
An imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the Equator?
Formed when latitude and longitude lines cross, making it much easier to locate places.
What is a grid?
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on the similarities and differences of a particular area.
What is region?
Helps you see the types of landforms and bodies of water found in a specific area.
What is a Physical map?
An imaginary line that divides the Earth into East and West hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A map-maker.
What is a cartographer?
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on the unique physical and human characteristics of a particular region.
What is Place?
Shows features of the Earth's surface that humans created such as cities, states, provinces, capitals, city-states, countries, and major cities.
What is a Political map?
Lines that run parallel to the Equator
What are lines of latitude?
A way of representing part of the surface of the Earth, or a sphere, on a flat surface.
What is a map projection?
One of the 5 Themes of Geography that focuses on a precise or exact spot on Earth.
A map that focuses on specific types of information.
What is a Thematic map?
Lines that go around the Earth over the poles.
What are lines of longitude?
What is Geography?