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  • What is a use for a political map?
    Used to show political units, such as countries or states
  • Explains the symbols and shading on the map
    Map key
  • What is a description for the theme, location?
    Absolute location describes exact location and relative location refers to an estimate of another place
  • What is a description for the theme, place?
    Refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location
  • What is a description for movement?
    How people, goods, and ideas move from one place to another
  • The study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth
    Geography
  • Directions that lie between the cardinal directions
    Intermediate directions
  • What does relative location show?
    Refers to an estimate of another place
  • A diagram of a compass giving directions
    Compass Rose
  • What is the description for the theme, region?
    Is an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature
  • What is the use of a special purpose map?
    Show the location or distribution of human or physical features. 
  • Height above sea level
    Elevation
  • Units that measure angles
    Degrees
  • What is a use for a physical map?
    Shows physical or natural features.
  • Name for each half of the Earth
    Hemisphere
  • What is the description for the theme human environment interaction?
    How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them
  • The distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian
    Longitude
  • These are north, east, south, and west
    Cardinal directions
  • The distance north or south of the equator
    Latitude
  • Absolute location shows...
    The exact location of an area
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