Vocab
The study of the human and non-human features of the Earth.
What is geography?
The four main directions are known as this.
What are the cardinal directions?
When the Earth spins in orbit and a whole day passes is called this.
What is a rotation?
The condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
the position north or south of the Equator.
What is Latitude?
A model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
When the Earth makes a full orbit around the sun.
The average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
The position of degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is Longitude?
The upper wording on a map is called this.
What is a map title?
Earth is split up into many different zones that help guide the daylight.
What are Tropics, Temperate, and Polar Zones?
A point in which everywhere on earth, day and nights are nearly equal.
What is an equinox?
Box on a map that explains the symbols or colors.
What is the map key?
The inner two layers of Earth.
What is the core and mantle?
What are Forest, Grassland, and Cold Climate?
A point in which days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other.
These are the five main themes of geography.
What is location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?
The outer most layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
What is the Water Cycle?