Study guide for test
Vocabulary you should be able to DEFINE:
1. Five themes of Geography (location, region, place,
16. The different landforms:
movement, human-environment interaction)
Mountain/hill/plains/plateau/desert/peninsula/island/is
2. Globe
thmus/valley/canyon/river/stream/ocean/sea/bay/gulf/
3. Map
delta/Reef/Sound/archipelago/strait/coast/beach/dunes
4. Types of maps (ex. Political, physical, climate, specialty
/glacier/ice sheet/ice berg/inlet/lake/volcano/mountain
etc)
range
5. Projection
17. The different climates: arid/semi arid/tropical
6. Cylindrical projection
wet/tropical wet and dry/humid subtropical/Marine west
7. Conical projection
coast/ humid
8. Planer projection
continental/subarctic/highlands/arctic/tundra/ice cap
9. Mercator projection
18. Time-zone
10. Gall-Peters projection
19. Longitude/Latitude (direction of lines + how to read them)
11. Robinson Projection
20. Latitudes
12. Distortion in projection (area/shape/distance)
21. Parallel/Meridians
13. Graphic scale
22. High latitudes/polar zone
14. Map scale: large scale/small scale
23. Middle latitudes
15. Compass Rose
24. Low latitudes
25. Precipitation
26. Temperature
27. Climate/weather
Concepts you should be able to explain:
1. Latitudes (what does latitudes have to do with climate?)
2. Climate vs weather (what’s the difference?)
3. The Five themes and how they help you study geography
4. Globes vs. maps (the types of distortion, the challenge of creating flat maps etc)
5. Large scale vs small scale (what’s the difference? What are they each used for?)
6. Climate and landforms (how do they affect each other)
7. The process of how to read and understand a map (what do you do first, second, third etc)
Study guide for test
Vocabulary you should be able to DEFINE:
1. Five themes of Geography (location, region, place,
16. The different landforms:
movement, human-environment interaction)
Mountain/hill/plains/plateau/desert/peninsula/island/is
2. Globe
thmus/valley/canyon/river/stream/ocean/sea/bay/gulf/
3. Map
delta/Reef/Sound/archipelago/strait/coast/beach/dunes
4. Types of maps (ex. Political, physical, climate, specialty
/glacier/ice sheet/ice berg/inlet/lake/volcano/mountain
etc)
range
5. Projection
17. The different climates: arid/semi arid/tropical
6. Cylindrical projection
wet/tropical wet and dry/humid subtropical/Marine west
7. Conical projection
coast/ humid
8. Planer projection
continental/subarctic/highlands/arctic/tundra/ice cap
9. Mercator projection
18. Time-zone
10. Gall-Peters projection
19. Longitude/Latitude (direction of lines + how to read them)
11. Robinson Projection
20. Latitudes
12. Distortion in projection (area/shape/distance)
21. Parallel/Meridians
13. Graphic scale
22. High latitudes/polar zone
14. Map scale: large scale/small scale
23. Middle latitudes
15. Compass Rose
24. Low latitudes
25. Precipitation
26. Temperature
27. Climate/weather
Concepts you should be able to explain:
1. Latitudes (what does latitudes have to do with climate?)
2. Climate vs weather (what’s the difference?)
3. The Five themes and how they help you study geography
4. Globes vs. maps (the types of distortion, the challenge of creating flat maps etc)
5. Large scale vs small scale (what’s the difference? What are they each used for?)
6. Climate and landforms (how do they affect each other)
7. The process of how to read and understand a map (what do you do first, second, third etc)