Vocabulary
Where a place is in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
A group of places that have common characteristics.
What is a region?
Shows the directions north, south, east and west on a map.
What is the compass rose?
A map maker.
What is a cartographer?
A flat surface that is built into a hillside.
What is a terrace?
The exact point where a place is located.
What is absolute location?
Explains how people, ideas, and animals move from one place to another.
What is movement?
A three-dimensional, or spherical, representation of Earth.
What is a globe?
Shows natural features of physical geography.
What is a physical map?
A map that covers a small area but shows many details.
What is a large-scale map?
Explains how people affect the environment and how the environment affects people.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
A large landmass on Earth's surface.
What is a continent?
Runs through Greenwich, England at 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Shows features that humans have created, such as countries, states, provinces, and cities.
What are political maps?
A map that covers a large area but includes few details.
What is a small-scale map?
Computer-based systems that create maps and analyze patterns using many layers of data.
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
A group of places with common traits.
What is a region?
Imaginary lines that run east to west, parallel to the equator.
What are the lines of latitude?
Azimuthal, Mercator, homolosine, Robinson and Winkel Tripel.
What are the 5 common map projections?
The height of a physical feature above sea level.
What is elevation?
Thinking about the space on Earth's surface, including where places are located and why they are there.
What is spatial thinking?
The world in Spatial Terms, Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment and Society and the uses of Geography are these.
What are the 6 essential Elements of Geography?
Imaginary lines that run north to south and measure distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What are the lines of longitude?
Name the 7 continents.
What are Asia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North America and South America?
Ways of showing Earth's curved surface on a flat map.
What are projections?