The Five Themes of Geography
This theme answers the question "Where is it?"
Location
This part of a map explains what the symbols and colors used.
What is a key (or legend)?
This word is related to the natural environment and the relationship between humans and nature
"Environmental"
Primary or secondary source: A letter written by King Louis XVI about the ongoing French Revolution.
Primary Source
This continent covers the South Pole.
What is Antarctica?
This theme focuses on how people interact with and change their surroundings
What is Human Environment Interaction?
This part of the map shows you what distances on the map are in real life. (1 inch = 100 miles)
What is the scale?
This word is related to money, work, trade, resources, or production.
What is "Economic"?
Describe one physical characteristic of Colorado.
Mountains, rivers, landforms, climate, etc.
This continent is home to countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
What is South America?
This theme describes what an area is like, including its physical and human characteristics
What is "place"?
This type of map uses colors, symbols, or other information to show a specific topic such as population or climate
What is a thematic map?
This word is related to beliefs, religion, traditions, language, art, values, or ways of life
What is "cultural"?
Describe one human characteristic of Colorado.
Religion, language, human-made features, culture, etc.
This major region includes countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq.
What is the Middle East?
The theme "movement" includes the movement of these THREE things.
People, goods (or products), and ideas (or information)
This type of map shows general information such as political boundaries and physical features
What is a reference map?
This word is related to people, groups, relationships, or how society is organized
What is "social"?
Secondary source
This ocean lies between the West Coast of the USA and Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This theme considers how places have characteristics in common with each other and groups them together.
What is region?
The ____________ projection (often seen in classrooms) especially distorts the size of countries located closest to the poles.
Mercator
This word is related to government, power, laws, or leadership.
What is "political"?
These are the FOUR things that can get distorted on a map projection.
What are Shape, Area (Size), Direction, and Distance?
This region is just south of Florida and includes countries like Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
What is the Caribbean?