The 5 Themes Flashcards
Location
Deals with the exact or relative spot of something on earth.
Human-environmental
The way people and environments interrelate with and affect each other.
Movement
How people and things change location and the affects of these changes.
Region
Organizes earth into geographic areas with one or more shared characteristics.
Place
Includes the physical and human features of a location.
Two Branches
Human geography and physical geography
pattern of latitude and longitude
grid
north-south imaginary lines on earth
latitude
east-west imaginary lines on earth
longitude
imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between earths north and south poles.
equator
another name for lines of latitude
parallels
another name for lines of longitude
meridians
an imaginary line drawn from the north pole through Greenwich England to the south pole.
prime meridian
the unit in which parallels and meridians measure distance
degrees
two halves of the earth
hemispheres
a collection if maps in one book
atlas
flat maps of the globe
map projections
the shortest distance between two places on earth
great-circle route
has arrows that point in all four cardinal directions
compass rose
identifies the symbols on a map and what they present
legend
connecting or bordering
contiguous
condensted droplets of water that fall as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
precipitation
elevation layouts and shapes.
topography
percentage of males and females by age group in a country’s population
climate graphs
average temperature and precipitation in a place
population pyramids
7 large land masses of earth
continents