5 themes of geography Flashcards
What is a pattern that is parallel and cross each other?
grid
what lines are drawn in an east-west direction?
latitude
What lines are drawn in a north-south direction?
longitude
Lines that measure the distance from north and south is called what?
equator
Lines of latitude are also called what?
parallels
Lines of longitude are called what?
meridians
What measures distance from east and west?
prime meridian
Parallels and meridians measure distances in what?
degrees
A half of something?
hemispheres
When we organize our planet’s land surface into seven large land masses it is called?
continents
A collection of maps in one book is called?
atlas
Mapmakers have different ways of presenting our round earth on flat maps that different is called?
map projections
The shortest route between any two places on the planet is called?
great-circle route
Arrows that point to all four principal directions?
compass rose
Identifies the symbols on a map and what they represent?
legend
sharing a common border?
contiguous
what is rain, snow, sleet or hail?
precipitation
elevation, layout, and shapes of the land?
topography
which graph shows the average temperatures and precipitation in a place?
climate graphs
which graph shows the percentages of males and females by age group in a country’s population?
population pyramids
what word deals with the exact or relative spot of something on earth?
location
what involves how people and things change locations and the effects of the locations
movement
what covers the ways people and environments interrelate with and effect each other?
human-environmental interaction
what organizes earth into geographic areas with one or more shared characteristics?
region
