Measuring Time
This device uses the sun to measure time
What is a sundial?
An isolated area of vegetation in a desert that provides water and a habitat for humans and animals.
What is an Oasis?
This theme of geography may be absolute or realative
What is location?
The directions North, South, East and West and known as these type of directions
What are Cardinal directions?
The United States government is split into this many different branches
What is 3?
Egyptians used planets and these to tell time
What are constellations?
A body of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
This theme has both physical and human characteristics
What is place?
Maps have this symbol to show you Cardinal directions
What is a compass?
Each branch limits the power of the other branches. his is called
What are Checks and Balances?
These four natural events were the first way to tell time
What are seasons?
A body of water partly enclosed by land and is usually smaller than a gulf
What is a bay?
People interact with each other through this theme
What is movement?
This best the sizes of continents and the shapes of landmasses and bodies of water
What is a globe?
This branch of government make the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
These use sand to measure time
What is an hourglass (sand glass)?
A stream or river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
Areas that have similarities in the way people live
What are regions?
A book with a collection of maps is called
What is an Atlas?
This branch of government interprets the Constitution
What is the Judicial Branch?
These began to appear in public towers in the early 14th century
What are mechanical clocks?
A deep valley with very steep sides, often carved into the earth by a river
What is a canyon?
Adapting, modifying or depending upon the environment is this theme
What is Human Environmental Interaction?
To find a place on the Earth, geographers use a system of imaginary lines that crisscross the globe. The Equator is one of these lines. It circles the middle of the Earth like a belt. It divides the Earth into this
What are hemispheres?
This is the highest law of the United States
What is the Constitution?