Map Master
These imaginary lines run east to west around Earth.
What are lines of latitude?
Earth has three major layers. Name them.
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
About this percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water.
What is 71%?
When people move from one place to another to live, this is called _____.
Answer: What is migration?
The beliefs, behaviors, customs, and traits shared by a group of people make up its _____.
What is culture?
This imaginary line of latitude circles the middle of Earth at 0°.
What is the Equator?
This hot, melted rock beneath Earth's surface is called _____.
What is magma?
Earth's water exists primarily in these two categories.
What are freshwater and salt water?
To LEAVE your country to live somewhere else is called this.
What is emigrate?
Language, religion, customs, and traditions are examples of this type of geography.
What is human geography?
These imaginary lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
This energy source causes movement within Earth that helps move tectonic plates.
What is heat from deep within Earth?
This term means the average weather conditions of a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
To ENTER another country to live there is called this.
What is immigrate?
Fair treatment under the law and the right to marry and have a family are examples of these.
What are human rights?
This map feature explains what symbols and colors on a map mean.
What is the map key/legend?
Earth experiences approximately 24 hours of daylight and darkness because Earth does this.
What is rotates on its axis?
This process removes salt from seawater so that the water can be used as freshwater.
What is desalination?
During the Industrial Age, people increasingly moved from rural areas into these places to find jobs.
What are cities/urban areas?
This country from your unit is an example of a dictatorship: Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, or North Korea.
What is North Korea?
You want a map showing your house and the individual streets around it. You should use this type of map.
What is a large-scale map?
Earthquakes and volcanoes are especially common around this ocean, an area sometimes called the "Ring of Fire."
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Water vapor cools and changes into liquid water during this part of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
If Earth's birthrate stays higher than its death rate, explain one likely effect.
The population will grow, increasing demand for resources and potentially increasing pollution.
Explain why language is an important part of culture.
Language allows people to communicate and pass along ideas, beliefs, history, customs, and traditions.