Geography
Types of Maps
Cultural/Political Geography
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100

List the seven continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/Oceania, Antarctica

100

Type of map that shows borders or boundaries, regions, or cities.

What is political map?

100

The study of how culture and people relate to each other.

What is cultural geography?

100

Lines that show distance north or south from the equator measured in degrees (run from East to West)

What are latitude lines?
100

Term for materials that are naturally found in the environment

What are natural resources?

200

List the 5 oceans

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, Arctic

200

Type of map that shows a particular subject matter or theme of a geographic area.

What is a thematic map?

200

These three elements make up culture.

What are language, religion, and ethnicity?

200

They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.

What are longitude lines/meridians?

200

North America is found in this hemisphere.

What is the Northwestern Hemisphere?

300

Flat representation of the Earth

What is a map?

300

Type of map that shows natural features, like mountains, rivers, and oceans

What is a physical map?

300

The study of geography that deals with boundaries, divisions, and possessions of countries.

What is political geography?

300

Line of latitude at 0 degrees

What is the equator?

300

These two types of factors determine whether people immigrate to a new place or emigrate from place.

What are push and pull factors?

400

The study of patterns on the Earth's surface is called this.

What is geography?

400

Type of map that shows weather over a long period of time.

What is a climate map?

400

List two natural borders and two man-made borders.

Natural-water, walking paths, trees

Man-made-fence, barbed wire, wall

400

Line of longitude at 0 degrees

What is the Prime Meridian?

400

A term for the spread of cultural ideas, practices, and beliefs from one person to another or from one culture to another.

What is cultural diffusion?

500

3D representation of the Earth.

What is a globe?

500

Type of map that shows the terrain of an area, like elevation, and can be 3D

What is a topographical map?

500

Term for the number of people living in a single area.

What is population?

500

Coordinates show this type of location: absolute or relative?

What is absolute location?

500
Typically a graph or illustration that shows the gender and age of a population at a particular period of time

What is a population pyramid?