Geographical Features
What is a hot and dry area of land with little rain or vegetation (plants)?
Dessert
What is a mapmaker called?
A Cartographer
What are three features of a map?
Key/Legend, Date, Author, Scale, Grid, Titles, Orientation
What is a geographer?
A person who studies geography.
What is a compass?
A part of a map that shows orientation.
What is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land?
Mountain
What are the two intersecting lines that help us locate an exact location on a map?
Longitude & Lattitude
What is a political map?
A map that shows political boundaries.
What is geographical context?
Identifying when something happened and what it led to.
What is effect?
Something that happens because something else happened.
What is a broad area of flat land?
Plain
What are the directions used to describe orientation?
North, South, East, West
What is a physical map?
A map that shows landscapes and geographic features.
What is historical context?
Identifying where and why why something took place, how the location had an impact and how places have changed over time.
What is affect?
To have an effect on; to make a difference to.
What is a large body of saltwater that is surrounded in whole or in part by land?
Sea
What are the four steps in the routine for analyzing maps?
Annotate, Contextualize, Source, Close Read
What is a Thematic map?
A map that shows specific topics for reference.
What does it mean to think like a geographer?
Examining the geographical/historical context of an event.
What is environment?
The area around us in which we live.
What is a large body of saltwater that covers nearly three fourths of the surface of the Earth?
Ocean
What are the 3 different types of maps?
Physical, Political & Thematic
Why is it important to note the date a map was created?
To determine how recent/accurate it is.
What is geography?
The study of the Earth, its physical features, and environment and the effects of human interaction with them.
What is historical context?
The events that led to an event; includes the time period and larger historical trends as well as causes.