Vocabulary Quiz Chapter 1

A group of places with common traits

• movement

• region

• absolute location

• scale

Thinking about the space on Earth's surface, including where places are and why they are there

• spatial thinking

• geographic patterns

• legend

• primemeridian

The exact point where a place is located.

• absolute location

• region

• elevation

• continent

A computer-based system for creating maps and analyzing patterns using many layers of data.

• GIS

• GPS

• relative location

• UPS

Where a place is in relation to other places.

• relative location

• absolute location

• logitude

• theme

A similarity in patterns.

• geographic patterns

• GPS

• GIS

• absolute location

A large landmass on Earth's surface.

• continent

• theme

• country

• mountains

A satellite system that geographers use to find absolute location.

• GPS

• GIS

• UPS

• USC

A three-dimensional, or spherical, representation of Earth.

• globe

• map

• hemisphere

• scale

Imaginary lines that run east to west, parallel to the equator.

• latitude

• longitude

• equator

• prime meridian