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5 Themes of Parts of the
Geography Map
Longitude Latitude
Geographer’s
Tools
5 themes of Geography- 100
The study of the Earth.
Q: What is Geography?
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5 Themes of Geography-200
Daily Double: What is a region and what do they help geographers do?
Q. It is an area with a unifying characteristic such as climate, or history.
It helps geographers make comparisons.
An area may be in more than one region.
On a map different regions may be shown
5 Themes of Geography-300
What are the five themes of geography?
Q. What are
- Location
- Place
- Human- Environment Interaction
- Movement
And Region?
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5 Themes of Geography-400
What is human- environment interaction?
Q. What is stresses how people affect their environment, looks at the consequences of people’s actions.
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5 Themes of Geography-500
Can one place be part of several regions at one time?
Q. What is yes?
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Part of the Map- 100
What are the Cardinal Directions ?
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Parts of the Map- 200
A. Blank explains what symbols mean on a map…
Q. What is a key or legend?
Parts of the Map- 300
Q. What is a compass rose?
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Parts of the Map- 400
A. What does a scale show you?
Q. What is how far from one place to another?
example- 1 line may = 1 mile in real life.
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Parts of the Map500
A.What tells us what the map is about?
Q. What is the title?
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100
A. What is the unit of measurement used to measure longitude?
Q .What are degrees?
Longitude-200
A. What are Circles that run up and down on the globe (aka line of longitude)?
Longitude-300
A. What is the maximum (max) longitude available?
Q. What is 180 degrees?
Longitude- 400
A. What are lines of longitude?
Q. What are meridians?
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Longitude-500
A. What is the line that is at 0 degrees Longitude?
Q. What is the Prime
Meridian?
Latitude-100
A. What is the equator?
Q. What is the line in the middle of the North and South pole?
Latitude -200
A. What are lines of latitude called?
Q. What are parallels?
Latitude-300
A. Do parallel lines ever meet?
Q. What is NO?
Latitude-400
Daily Double
A. What are East- West Circles
around the world?
Q. What are lines of latitude?
Latitude-500
A. What absolute location and how do you find it?
Q. What is absolute location is the exact position of earth using latitude and longitude?
Geographer’s Tools - 100
A. What is a round ball like earth?
Q. What is a globe?
Geographer’s Tools -200
A. What is the only difference between the globe and earth?
Geographer’s Tools -300
Daily Double
A. What is one problem that exists when using a globe?
Q. What is that it isn’t small enough to be convenient?
A. What are tools geographers use?
Q. What are: maps, globes, and projections?
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Geographer’s Tools -500
A. What is a problem with flat maps?
Q. What is the earth is round, and things look smaller or larger then they really are?
A. Definition of Map Projection:
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Q. A way of mapping the earth's surface that reduces distortion caused by converting three dimensions into two dimensions.