Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means an imaginary line drawn that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and sits at the parallel of latitude 0°.
What is the Equator?
The other name for latitude lines is
What are parallels?
The movement of goods, people, and ideas pertains to this theme of Geography.
What is Movement?
This type of map shows man made features.
What is a political map?
This part of the map shows you what the map is about.
What is the title?
This vocabulary word means to describe the earth
What is Geography?
The other name for longitude lines are...
What are meridians?
This theme of geography explains how to find specific places and how to describe where they are.
What is Location?
This type of map shows naturally made features.
What is a physical map?
This part of the map shows you what the symbols and colors mean on the map.
What is the key/ legend?
This vocabulary word means the tool on a map that shows the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the Earth's surface
What is a map scale?
When you cross this line the day changes.
What is the international dateline?
This theme of Geography describes what a location looks like and what to expect when going there.
What is Place?
This type of map could show you the amount of engagement on social media platforms by countries.
What is a thematic map?
Canada is located in these two hemispheres.
What is the Northwest(ern) hemispheres
This vocabulary word means the spread of cultural beliefs, practices, and traits from one group or culture to another
What is cultural diffusion?
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are along these parallel lines.
What are 23.5 degrees N and 23.5 degrees S?
This theme of Geography examines how humans have affected the earth around them.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
This type of map could be used to sail through treacherous and dangerous ocean waves in the Pacific.
What is a navigational map?
The three continents are located below the equator
What are South America, Africa, and Australia?
This type of map shows you information about a country based on a set of data other than land area.
What is a cartogram?
This is the city that the Prime Meridian goes through.
What is Greenwich, England?
This theme of Geography examines similar characteristics of places near one another and labels them into groups.
What is region?
This type of map requires you to use a data set to measure specific things and compare them to other countries.
What is a cartogram?
Latitude is written on this side when reading coordinates
What is the left side?