Geography
The study of the people and places of Earth.
What is geography?
Tells us what the different symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend? (Key)
Slow moving rock that pushes together and causes rocks to break and move.
What is tectonic plates?
Things from the natural environment that people use.
What is natural resources?
Why do rivers flow towards the ocean?
Flow from high areas to low areas.
Includes all the surroundings and conditions that affect living things.
What is environment?
Shows direction.
North, South, East, and West
What is a compass rose?
Process of wearing away rock and soil.
What is erosion?
Things in the environment that can replace after we use them.
What is renewable resources?
Why is the sun an important resource?
Sun provides energy
Things found in nature. Includes landforms, mountains, valleys, and bodies of water.
What is physical features?
Tells us the distance from one place to another.
What is a map scale?
Huge mass of slow moving ice.
What is a glacier?
Things in nature that cannot replace after they are used.
What is nonrenewable resources?
Coal, natural gas and oil are examples of what?
Fossil Fuels
How you would describe the location of a place.
What is "Where is it?"
Tells us what the map's subject is.
What is a title?
An area with a low center surrounded by higher land.
What is a basin?
3 nonrenewable resources
What is iron, copper, fossil fuels?
What might happen to our supply of oil and natural gas in the next 100 years?
They might run out
One half of Earth's surface.
What is hemisphere?
What is Ms. Randolph's favorite color?
What is purple?
3 reasons why rivers are important.
Farming, transporting goods, source of power to run machines
Something that is made from natural resources.
What is product?