10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geography and Map Skills Key Terms 5 Themes Of Geography Latin America Natural Resources & Push - Pull 5 pt

This imaginary line splits the world into northern and southern hemispheres

What is the equator? Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere equator

Knowing Canada’s location to the Equator, its climate tends to be hot or cold

What is cold? Equator

This natural resource covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface

What is water?

This type of map is the least distorted.

What is a globe?

It is difficult to grow crops on either a plateau, a mountain, or a plain.

What is mountain?

Either the map scale or compass rose shows, the four cardinal directions of north, south, east and west, on the map. Bonus! Double the Point Value by explaining the purpose of the second map vocabulary.

What is a COMPASS ROSE?. Bonus answer: the scale shows relative size on a map.

This theory helps geographers explain migration

What is Push - Pull?

Average weather over many years

What is climate?

This is the term used to mean half the world

What is hemisphere ? E W

This occurs when people are forced to move to a new place because of war, injustice, or natural disasters.

What is involuntary migration?

Meaning of R A S C, which is used to answer essay questions

What is Restate the question Answer the question S upport the question with facts Complete the answer with a concluding sentence?

This is what geographers learn when they study human-environment interaction

What is how people and the environment affect each other?

This theme of Geography has to do with human and physical features.

What is Place ?

This theme of Geography groups places with a unifying theme.

What are regions ?

This theme of Geography explains how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.

What is Movement?

This theme of Geography shows where something is according to directions or latitude and longitude.

What is Location?

Latin America is located in which East/West Hemisphere

What is the Western Hemisphere?

Latin America does not contain these two countries of North America

What are Canada and the United States? X

This explain why many people leave rural areas for cities and towns.

What is to have better opportunities (schools, jobs, healthcare, etc.)

3 factors that affect a place’s climate.

What are elevation, distance to the Equator, wind patterns, or precipitation?

Name 3 examples of non-renewable resources

What are coal, oil, natural gas, gold and fossil fuels?

Resources created over millions of years from prehistoric plants and animals. Robinson map projection

What are Fossil Fuels?

Movement of people from region to another

What is migration?

In of When people choose to move from one region to another

What is voluntary migration?

Three reasons to be pulled to a new region or location

What are Better schools, Better medical facilities, Safer neighborhoods, Good jobs, Peace and freedom?

Three reasons for a family to be pushed from a region

What are poverty, war, inadequate medical facilities, lack of jobs, religious oppression and natural disaster?