1. Map Skills, 5 Themes of Geography, Economic Basics, Culture
1st 9 Weeks Study Guide
Map Skills, 5 Themes of Geography, Economic Basics, Culture

2. Map key (legend)-
Explains the symbols and shading on a map.
2. Know which ways lines of latitude and longitude run. Latitude lines run
from east to west but measure north to south from the Equator.
Longitude lines run from north to south but measure east to
west from the Prime Meridian.
What are the advantages of a globe?
It is a model of the Earth and shows the continents and oceans as they really are.
What are the disadvantages of a globe?
A globe doesn’t show city streets and it would be impossible to carry around.

3. What are the advantages of a map?
Maps can show many different things about Earth such as streets,
boundaries, elevations. Map are easier to carry around.
What two questions do geographers always ask?
Where are things located? Why are they there?
Latitude and longitude lines help geographers identify
specific places on Earth.
What are the five themes of geography?
location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction

4. the location of a place relative to another place.
Relative location is
the location of a place relative to another place.
Ex: Mississippi is bordered by Tennessee to the North and the Gulf of Mexico
and SE Louisiana to the South. Arkansas and Louisiana to the West and
Alabama to the East.
Absolute location is
describing a place’s exact position on Earth of terms of longitude and
latitude.
Ex: Mississippi is 32° 35’N, 89° 39’W
Ex: Southaven is 34° N, 90° W

5. Movement is defined as
exploring how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
Ex: food, fuel, and other basic goods
Describe human-environment interaction
considers how people affect their environment, or their natural surroundings,
and how their environment affects them.
Ex: The movement of water from the Potomac River into
Washington’s water system.
A region is
an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature.
Ex: climate, landforms, population, or history

6. Location is described as
where something is.
Ex: Answers will vary
Define place
refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.
Ex: how many people live in a certain place, what kind of work do people do.
Explain the difference between absolute and relative location.
Absolute location is something or someone’s exact location and relative
location describe something or someone being near/around something or
someone else.

7. Service is
any kind of work performed for others.
Supply is
the amount of a good or service that is available for use.
Trade is
the exchange of goods and services in a market.
Imports are
goods and services sold in a country that are produced in other countries.
Exports are
goods and services produced within a country and sold outside the country’s
borders.

8. Culture is
the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group
of people.
Ethics are
standards of acceptable behavior.
Society is
a group humans with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet
their basic needs.
Architecture is
is the design and construction of buildings.
26. Social Structure is
a pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society.