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This is the precise point where a place is located on Earth.
What is absolute location?
A place on a map compared to another.
What is relative location?
The imaginary line that runs at 0 degrees longitude from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This usually describes the area shown on a map and it also identifies the map's main topic.
What is a title?
What geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth.
What is longitude and latitude or GPS (Global Positioning System)?
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The Northern and Southern Hemsiphere are divided by which?
a. Prime Meridian b. Tropic of Cancer
c. International Date Line d. Equator
What is the Equator?
Flows down from mountains and makes its way to the sea.
What is a river?
Imaginary lines that run east and west around the globe.
What are lines of latitude?
What do geographers study?
a. people, places, and maps
b. envioronments, natural surroundings, and people
c. places, environments, and people
d. places, people, and animals
What is places, environments, and people?
The type of map that shows mountains and rivers.
a. relief map b. physical map
c. political map d. boundary map
What is a physical map?
Which is a list of human features?
a. climate, vegetation, population
b. population, land use, economic activity
c. population, economy, and climate
d. geography, spatial, and location
What is population, land use, and economic activity?
Landforms, climate, and resources are included in which of the 5 Themes of Geography?
a. Place b. human interaction
c. movement d. environment
What is environment?
This is what tells you how the distances on the map compare to the actual distances on Earth.
What is scale?
Name the 3 visuals geographers use.
What is Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams?
An area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
Shows directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
Where symbols on a map are located.
What is a legend or key?