Vocabulary
The study of weather and what causes it.
What is meteorology?
Another name for lines of latitude.
What are parallels?
Shows how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.
What is Movement?
This type of map includes country borders and capital cities.
What is a political map?
These are the three levels at which geographers study the world.
What are local, regional, and global?
The study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
What is Geography?
Another name for lines of longitude.
What are meridians?
This theme of geography describes where something is on earth.
What is Location?
This type of map shows natural features such as rivers and mountains.
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?
The feature 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 makes a site unique.
What is Place?
This type of map focuses on one special topic such as climate or population.
What is a thematic map?
The three continents that are located below the equator.
What are South America, Africa, and Australia?
A narrow piece of land connecting two large land areas
What is isthmus?
The science of making maps.
What is cartography?
This theme of Geography examines how humans have affected the earth around them and how they are affected by the earth around them.
What is Human Environment Interaction?
Showing the round Earth on flat maps will do this to some details of a map.
What is distort?
A technology system that combines and provides geographic information from many different sources.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is tributary?
This is the city that the Prime Meridian goes through.
What is Greenwich, England?
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is Region?
He drew an advanced world map around 194 BC that incorporated a grid of parallels and meridians.
Who is Eratosthenes?
The distance in miles around the earth at the equator.
What is 24,901 miles?