Landforms
Industry and Poplulation
Environment
Five Themes
Map Skills
100
A name describing that earth was once a supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
100
The process of logging where all trees are cut down in an area.
What is clear-cutting.
100
The increase of temperature on the Earth's surface caused by unnatural changes in atmosphere and ozone depletion.
What is global warming.
100
All places can be located in precise terms, using latitude, longitude, or distance from another place.
What is location?
100
A person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer.
200
The wearing down of Earth’s surface.
What is erosion?
200
The industry where raw materials are obtained.
What is primary industry.
200
An underground formation of permeable rock which can produce useful quantities of water.
What is an aquifer.
200
Pine Beetle forests clear-cut in attempt to eliminate the infestation.
What is places change due to human impact?
200
Used to show how far north or south you are from the equator
What is latitude?
300
The zone of molten magma between the crust and the core of the Earth.
What is the mantle.
300
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
300
The day to day, hour to hour condition of the sky
What is the weather?
300
Importing oranges from Florida.
What is places interact with other places?
300
Shows your location in an east/west direction, relative to the Greenwich Meridian, in London England.
What is longitude?
400
a place where two plates are converging
What is a subduction zone?
400
The industry that focuses on providing services to the public.
What is the tertiary or service industry?
400
The process in which pesticides accumulate as they travel up the food chain.
What is biomagnification.
400
The civil war in old Czecoslovakia resulted in the Czec Republic and Slovakia.
What is places change politically?
400
These use brackets and a comma (X°N, Y°W).
What are co-ordinates?
500
Land covered with thick, moving ice
What is glaciation?
500
The region of Canada to which the majority of immigrants are moving.
What is Western Canada?
500
The precipitation whereby maritime air moves in and pushes up the mountain, rains on one side of the mountain, and then produces a rain shadow.
What is orographic?
500
British Columbia has jade deposits.
What is places have physical characteristics?
500
The names for the two lines that run 0 degrees latitude and 0 degrees longitude.
What are the equator and the prime meridian?
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