GEOGRAPHY BASICS
The study of places, people, environments, and the relationships between them.
What is geography?
These are the four main directions: north, south, east, and west.
What are the cardinal directions?
The outermost layer of Earth is called this.
What is the crust?
The conditions of the atmosphere at a specific place and time, such as today's temperature or precipitation.
What is weather?
The shared beliefs, customs, language, traditions, and way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
This tells where something is located compared to another place, such as "Minnesota is north of Iowa."
What is relative location?
In TODALS, this letter represents the feature that explains how far apart places are.
What is D-Distance?
Name Earth's three main layers in order from the outside to the inside.
What are crust, mantle, and core?
The long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
The number of live births in a population during a certain period of time.
What is the birth rate?
This is the exact location of a place, usually identified using latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
A map uses a compass rose showing that north is at the top. Which part of TODALS does this represent?
What is Orientation?
When tectonic plates move apart from one another, this type of movement occurs.
What is separation/divergence?
This is the process in which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
A geographic area where people share one or more cultural characteristics, such as language or religion.
What is a cultural region?
A group of places that share one or more common characteristics is called this.
What is a region?
A map's legend helps you understand these symbols and colors.
What are map symbols/key?
When tectonic plates move toward each other, this type of movement occurs.
What is collision/convergence?
This is the movement of weathered rock and sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The variety of cultures, languages, traditions, and ways of life found within a place or population.
What is cultural diversity?
Name all five themes of geography.
What are Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region?
Explain what each letter in TODALS stands for.
One plate moves sideways past another plate. This type of movement can cause earthquakes.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is sliding/transform movement?
Name the five general climate zones.
What are Tropical, Dry, Temperate, Highland, and Polar?
Give one example of population and explain what it tells geographers.
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