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5 Themes of Geography
Map Components
Types of Maps
Reading Maps
Miscellaneous
100
This theme deals with people and products going from one place to another.
What is Movement?
100
The purpose of this component is to let the viewer know what the map is about.
What is Title?
100
This type of map shows the landmarks and nature of an area.
What is Physical Map?
100
Stars usually represent these on the map.
What are capitals?
100
This is the study of Earth and everything on it.
What is Geography?
200
This theme groups together areas with similar cultures or industries.
What is Region?
200
This component tells the directions on a map.
What is a Compass?
200
This map shows established places in the world, such as countries or states.
What is a Political Map?
200
Squiggly blue lines usually represent these on maps.
What are Rivers?
200
This location is found using places around an area.
What is relative location?
300
This theme looks at how humans interact with the world around them.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
300
This component uses smaller measurements to represent larger measurements.
What is Scale?
300
This type of map shows information of a specific topic or theme.
What is a Thematic Map?
300
This would tell you what a symbol on a map meant if you didn't understand it.
What is a Map Key?
300
Humans dumping waste into rivers is an example of this 5 Themes of Geography.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
400
This theme deals with latitude and longitude.
What is location?
400
This component is a small image used to represent something on a map.
What is Symbol?
400
A map showing mountain ranges and rivers is this kind of map.
What is Physical?
400
If you wanted to know the distance between two places on the map you would look at this.
What is the Scale?
400
Which way do longitude lines run?
What is North and South?
500
This theme is defined by its physical and human traits. (every location is one of these)
What is Place?
500
This component is the section that explains what symbols mean.
What is the Map Key?
500
A map showing the number of hours people watch TV is this kind of map.
What is Thematic?
500
If you wanted to know the absolute location of a place you would look at these.
What are latitude and longitude lines?
500
These are the four hemispheres that the Earth is split into.
What is North, South, East, & West