Geography Themes and Map Features

          Location;  Place;  Human/Environment Interaction; Movement; Region

Location; Homes;  Religion;  Movement;  Human/Environment Interaction

Location;  Plants and Animals; Watershed Systems; Region; Movement

Location; Human Customs, Place, Watershed Systems, Movement

          Globes are flat representations of Earth.        

Globes show streets, buildings and historical places.

Globes are a round, small copy, or model, of Earth that you can hold in your hands.

Globes are less accurate than maps.

         They are flat, display hemispheres, show roads, grids, and lines of longitude and latitude.

            They are round, display railroads, list small cities, have lines of longitude and latitude.

          They are round, display hemispheres, have a grid,  show the poles, list cities.

     They are round, displays hemispheres, contain the Equator and Prime Meridian, show lines of longitude and latitude, show the poles.

Title, Rivers, Mountains, Prime Meridian, Hemispheres   

Title, Map Key, Compass Rose,  Symbols,  Scale

Title, Prime Meridian, Hemispheres, Locator, populations

Title, equator, Prime Meridian, Hemispheres, bodies of water

Northeast Region

Southeast Region

Midwest Region

Southwest Region

Western Region

Allegheny Plateau

Ridge and Valley

Atlantic Coastal Plain

Piedmont

A variety of habitats supports a variety of vegetation.

Many hardwood trees grow in the state.

Wildflowers bloom throughout forest areas.

Several softwoods grow in the mountains.

Most people did not settle near the river.

People did not want to live near a crowded river.

The river made transportation better, so people settled near it.

The river’s location had little effect on settlement.

How flat the land is.

How high the land is.

How wide the land is.

The natural resources of the land.

deserts

mountains

valleys

plateaus