5 Themes of Geography
Reading a Map
Latitude & Longitude
Forces of Change & Landforms
Climate & Regions
100

The two types of location

What are relative location and absolute location?

100

The area on a map that tells what symbols on the map stand for and shows a scale for the map

What is the key?

100

Goes first when writing coordinates

What is latitude?

100
The layer of Earth that we live on

What is the crust?

100

An area unified by certain factors or characteristics

What is a region?

200

The two types of geography

What are physical geography & human geography?

200

Mapmakers who create 2D maps from 3D globes.

What are cartographers?

200

Measures direction east and west

What is longitude?

200

The rotation of heat below the mantle

What is convection?

200

The difference between weather and climate

What is short term changes vs recording over time?

300

How ideas, things, people get from one place to another

What is movement?

300

The map projection that looks like a peeled orange

What is Goode's Interrupted Equal Area projection?

300

The zero line for latitude and the zero line for longitude

What is the equator? What is the prime meridian?

300
The external forces of change

What are weathering and erosion?

300

Tropical, dry, moderate, continental, polar

What are examples of climate regions?
400

The desks, chairs, students, maps, etc. in this classroom are an example

What is place?

400

Shows a theme such as climate or language spoken.

What is a thematic map?

400

The lines that are parallel

What are lines of latitude?

400

The three types of plate movement that we discussed in class

What are subduction, sea floor spreading, and faulting?

400
The three things that affect an area's climate

What are latitude, proximity to water, and altitude?

500

The 5 Themes of Geography

What are:

Location

Place

Region

Human-Environment Interaction

Movement

?

500

The sections of the globe if cut in half

What are hemispheres?

500

The name of the tropic lines north and south of the equator

What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?

500

The two physical results of subduction

What are ocean trenches and mountain ranges?

500

Resources that are fixed or finite amounts

What are non-renewable resources?