THEMES BY DEFINITION
TOOLS
USING MAPS
CHANGES ON THE EARTH
CHANGES WITHIN THE EARTH
100
A PLACE IN RELATION TO OTHER PLACES
What is RELATIVE LOCATION?
100
USES SOUND TO DETERMINE DIRECTION AND DISTANCE
What is SONAR?
100
THIS GIVES THE CARDINAL DIRECTIONS ON A MAP.
What is A COMPASS ROSE?
100
The movement of weathered materials (gravel, sand, soil).
What is EROSION?
100
THE THREE LAYERS OF THE EARTH.
What is CORE, MANTLE, CRUST?
200
HOW PEOPLE USE THEIR ENVIRONMENT
What is ?
200
Satellites provide information about location
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
200
ANOTHER NAME FOR A MAPMAKER
Who is CARTOGRAPHER?
200
THE MOST COMMON FORM OF MECHANICAL WEATHERING.
What is FROST WEDGING?
200
Series of volcanoes surrounding ?Pacific Ocean.
What IS RING OF FIRE?
300
PEOPLE, GOODS, AND IDEAS TRAVEL FROM PLACE TO PLACE
What is MOVEMENT?
300
The US starting using images from these in 1972
What are SATELLITES?
300
THESE IMAGINERY LINES RUN FROM POLE TO POLE ON A MAP.
WHAT IS LONGITUDE?
300
A flat plain formed at mouth of river, where it enters a lake, ocean, or larger river.
What is DELTA?
300
The belief that there was one single supercontinent, Pangaea, that began to break up 180 million years ago.
WHAT IS CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY?
400
Refers to both physical and human characteristics
What is Place?
400
Originally developed by the military; now used to study the ocean floor
What is SONAR?
400
ANOTHER NAME FOR LINES OF LATITUDE.
What ARE PARALLELS?
400
Chemicals from polluted air combines with water vapor and return to earth’s surface as this.
What is ACID RAIN?
400
A FLAT VOLCANO WITH LAVA FLOWING EVENLY FROM IT.
What is SHIELD VOLCANO?
500
A GROUP OF PLACES WITH AT LEAST ONE COMMON CHARACTERISTIC
What is REGION?
500
Create layers of information/data to solve geographic problems
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)
500
THIS TYPE OF MAP PROJECTION IS LEAST DISTORTED.
What is ROBINSON PROJECTION?
500
TWO OF THE THREE CAUSES OF EROSION.
What is WATER, WIND, GLACIERS?
500
The type of plate movement when two continental plates collide and both are forced upward.
What is CONVERGENCE?
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