Longitude & Latitude
What runs north-south splitting the Earth into two hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
True or False
Place is how people's goods and ideas move around the world
False
Primary or Secondary Source?
Anne Frank's Diary
Primary Source
Half of the Earth
Hemisphere
How many continents are there?
7
What does Human-Environment Interaction mean?
Depend, Adapt, Modify
What divides the northern from the southern hemisphere?
Equator
Name all 5 Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Movement
Region
Human-Environment Interaction
Primary or Secondary Source?
Grandfather of a student that is a veteran from World War II
Primary
Physical and human features of a location
Place
Name all the oceans
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Southern
Arctic
What is one example of human environment interaction?
Irrigation
What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Latitude runs from East to West and measures distance north and south of the Equator
Longitude runs from North to South and measures the distance East and West of the Prime Meridian
Define Region
Area of land that shares a common environment and/or culture
Primary or Secondary Source
Newspaper Headline from September 12, 2001
Primary
Difference between Prime Meridian and the Equator
Prime Meridian separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and the Equator the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
List the seven continents. What is the smallest continent?
Continents: N.A., S.A., Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica
Smallest: Australia
Is wearing warm clothing an example of adapting or modifying to ones environment?
Adapt
_________________ run from East to West.
Latitude
What does human environment interaction mean?
Depend, Adapt, Modify
What is a primary source?
Source from the time period being studied
How is a political map different from a physical map?
Political shows borders and physical shows natural phenomena
How are North and South America geographically different from one another?
One is located in the Northern hemisphere and the other is in the Southern hemisphere
What is the difference between adapting and modifying?
Adapt = Change Yourself
Modify = Change Environment
What line divides the Eastern and Western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What is the difference between location and place?
Location is the geographic location (address or latitude and longitude)
Place is the physical and human features of a location
What is the difference between a primary and secondary source?
Secondary sources are NOT from the time period being studied.
How do the Compass Rose and the lines of latitude and longitude help a person to use a map?
Why might there only be six continents in the future?
Many geographers and cartographers want to combine Europe and Asia into ONE super continent named Eurasia.
People building houses on stilts because the area floods is an example of __________.
Adapting