Lesson 1 Vocab

Five themes of geography

• answers 'where is it?'

• where a place is located in relation to another place

• one of seven of the worlds largest land masses

• the five big ideas of geography

location

• dividing border line between countries

• area
• answers 'where is it'?

• destination

relative location

• where a place is located in relation to another place.

• one of the seven land masses on Earth.

• the imaginary line that divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• The five big ideas in geography.

continent

• five big ideas in geography

• imaginary line that divides the Earth in half vertically

• dividing border line between countries

• one of the worlds seven largest land masses.

political boundaries

• the exact location of a place based on a fixed point (coordinates)

• the dividing border line between cities, states, and countries

• imaginary line that divides the Earth horizontally

• one of the seven world's largest land masses

hemisphere

• one of the world's seven largest land masses

• answers 'where is it?'

• when the earth is divided in half

• the five big ideas in geography

Equator

• the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

• the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres

The Prime Meridian

• the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.

• the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.

absolute location

• Latitude and longitude coordinates
• answers 'where is it?'

• the exact location of a place based on a fixed point (coordinates)

• the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres