Mapping
Maps designed to show governmental boundaries.
What is a political map?
An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
An imaginary line encircling Earth halfway between the North and South Pole.
What is the equator?
The transfer of people, goods, or ideas from one place to another has to do with this theme of geography.
What is movement?
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is geography?
Maps designed to show landforms like deserts or mountains.
What is a physical map?
A drawing that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
Something that can be expressed using coordinates (such as coordinates 39 degrees North and 86 degrees West) or using nearby landmarks.
What is location?
The affect of people on their environment and they way the environment affects people.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
What is absolute location.
The lines of longitude and latitude can be used to find what? ( It's a theme of geography).
Gives you the information needed for the map to make sense.
What is a key or legend?
The four main points of the compass (North, South, East, West) are called what?
What are the cardinal directions?
The region between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Also a great place to vacation in the sun.
What is the tropics?
Areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics.
What are regions?
An area of the world that has a shared climate and possibly more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is a climate region or biome?
Pictures or icons that represent different things on the map.
What is a symbol?
An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.
What is a physical geography?
Defined by unique features, such as plants, landforms, animals, and weather patterns.
What is place?
What are the Tropics.
The area between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn .
The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
What is a map scale?
A guide that explains the relationship between real distances on Earth and distances on a map.
What is scale?
We live in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western hemispheres?
The position of a spot on the Earth's surface which can be described as absolute or relative.
What is location?
One half of a sphere or globe. Earth can be divided into four of these.
What is a hemisphere?