Vocabulary
Map Skills
5 Themes of Geography
Types of Maps
100
This word means the study of the Earth, including human and nonhuman features.
What is geography?
100
Between Southaven and Tupelo, this city had the most rainfall on 4/7/2014.
What is Tupelo?
100
If a geographer is studying where a people group lives using longitude and latitude and seeing what countries that group is beside, she is focusing on this theme of geography.
What is location?
100
What is a political map?
200
This is the term for the directions north, south, east, and west.
What are the cardinal directions?
200
This is the direction that you would travel to get from Tupelo, MS, to Southaven, MS.
What is northwest?
200
If a geographer is looking at how the people in Asia rely on rice to eat because it grows well in that environment, he is studying in this theme of geography.
What is human-environment interaction?
200
This type of map's purpose is to show the environment of a particular place, such as its rivers, elevation, land type, mountains, and other features.
What is a physical map?
300
What is the term for the line that divides the Earth into 2 sections North and South? It's at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
300
This city is near 42oN, 74oW.
What is Kingston?
300
If a geographer is studying how people tailgate at football games similarly in Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, (The South) she is studying within this theme of geography.
What is region?
300
What is a topographic map?
400
This is the term for the directions northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest.
What are intermediate directions?
400
This is a Native American tribe that lives in the Arctic cultural region.
What are the Inuit?
What are the Aleut?
400
If a geographer is studying how Spanish came to be the common language in Mexico, Costa Rica, and El Salvador, when it originally came from Spain in Europe, he is studying within this theme of geography.
What is movement?
400
This type of map gives extra information about a topic. It is also called a special-purpose map.
What is a thematic map?
500
This is the name for the line that divides the Earth in two East and West sections. It's at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This is about the distance from the Flint Tower to the Bowyer Tower.
What is 150 feet?
500
If a geographer is studying what types of languages are spoken in Kolkata, India, she is studying within this theme of geography.
What is place?
500
The title of this map is "United Kingdom of the Netherlands."
What is a historical map?