Map Skills
Types of Sources
Themes: Location and Place
HEI: Human Environment Interaction
Themes: Movement and Region
100

What are the 4 cardinal directions?

N, S, E,W

100

A type of source created when the event happened?

Primary Source

100

Give an example of absolute location.

address or latitude and longitude

100

Give and example of how people affect the environment.

Pollution, recycling, deforestation, etc.  Answers will vary

100

Give an example of how people get around.  

Cars, bikes, walking etc. 

200

What are the 4 inter mediate directions?

NW, NE, SW, SE

200

Type of Source created by other original sources

Secondary Source

200

What is relative location?

General description of where a place it located.  

200

Give an example of how the environment can affect people.

Natural disasters, allergies, weather etc.  Answers will vary.

200

Give an example of how animals move.  

Migration

300

What two hemispheres does the Equator divide the world into?


Northern and Southern

300

What are the 5Ws?

Who, What, When, Where, Why?

300

What type of features are mountains, rivers, and valleys?

Physical Features

300

What does it mean when humans change in order to live in an environment?

Adapt or Adaptation

300

Give an example of how information and ideas move.  

Internet, TV, Phones, etc. 

400

What two hemispheres does the Prime Meridian divide the world into?


Eastern and Western

400

What type of sources is a letter from 1863 from Gen. Lee to the President?

Primary

400

What type of features are buildings, roads, and dams?

Human Features

400

Give an example of people would adapt to live in Las Vegas or a Desert Region.

Air conditioning, Wear lighter clothes, etc.  

400

What is a region?

It is an area that has a common characteristic that ties everything together.  

500

What always goes first:  the latitude coordinate or the longitude coordinate?

Latitude

500

Internet, encyclopedias, and biographies are what types of sources?

Secondary

500

What is difference between location and place?

Location is where is it located and Place is what it looks like.

500

What is the most common form of HEI found in many countries?

Agriculture or Farming

500

Give an example of a region in Las Vegas.

Chinatown, Henderson, CCSD, etc.