Themes of Geography and Location

What divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• The Equator

• The Prime Meridian

• The Arctic Circle

• The International Date Line

Lines of (a)   , also called parallels, run east and west around the Earth.

Vertical lines of (a)   , also called meridians, run north and south between Earth's poles.

What does Human-Environment Interaction tell us?

• Where something is located on a map

• How a place is similar to another area

• The relationship between people and the environment

• What a place is like

What is absolute location?

• It tells us where something is in relation to something else

• The exact location

• Characteristics of a place

• The weather of an environment

(a)   directions are the four main points on a compass

Which theme of Geography tells us how and why places are connected with one another

• Movement

• Location

• Human-Environment Interaction

• Place

Which theme of geography tells us where something is located

• Movement

• Place

• Region

• Location

How many continents are there?

• four

• five

• nine

• seven

How many oceans does the world have?

• four

• eleven

• five

• one