This theme of geography describes how humans interact with their environment.
What is human environment interaction (HEI)?
The four layers of the earth from the inside out.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
A shaking or sudden movement in plates.
What is an earthquake?
The condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time.
What is weather?
Latitudes farther away from the equator receive this type of weather.
What is colder?
This theme of geography answers the question - "Where are we?"
What is location?
This sphere includes the air that surrounds the earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
Mountains that form when lava rises through the crust.
What is a volcano?
Weather patterns that an area typically experiences during a long period of time.
What is climate?
The frequently windless area located around the equator.
What is doldrums?
This theme of geography is defined by common characteristics such as language, culture, religion, ect.
What is a region?
This sphere includes oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water on the earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Name the seven continents.
What is North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica.
The imaginary line that runs through the center of the earth.
What is the axis?
The side of a mountain facing the ocean.
What is the windward side?
This theme of is described by both physical and human characteristics.
What is place?
This sphere includes the part of the earth's crust that is made up by land.
What is the Lithosphere?
What is where plates meet one another?
The time when the sun's rays directly face the equator and days and nights are equal.
What is the equinox?
The air on the leeward side of a mountain is this.
What is hot and dry?
Movement is one of the five themes of geography. Name at least three ways people or ideas move.
What is travel, trade, email, text, ect.?
This sphere includes the part of earth where life is found.
What is the biosphere?
The layer of the earth that includes the continents and ocean basins.
What is the crust?
The time when the sun's rays directly hit the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the Solstice?
The dry area of the leeward side of a mountain.
What is the rain shadow?