Forces Shaping the Earth
This causes Earthquakes and Volcanoes and volcanoes to form
What is the movement of tectonic plates?
This landform connects two larger landmasses
What is an Isthmus?
The ____________ side of a mountain is mostly likely to develop deserts.
What is the leeward side?
_________ is the process in which water is collected and distributed to crops
What is Irrigation?
The 4 seasons are caused by the direct and indirect rays from ______________.
What is the sun?
What created the Himalaya Mountains?
The collision of two continental plates
This is the part of a river where it empties into another body of water
What is the mouth?
This is the term for predictable patterns of weather that happen over long periods of time
What is climate?
The lithosphere is another name for ______________
What is The Earth's Crust?
The two hemispheres that you live in are the ____________________
What are the Northern and the Western Hemisphere?
The ring of Fire is located around the perimeter of this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The step of the water cycle where rain falls back to Earth is called _____________
What is Precipitation?
These are the winds that blow over North America
What are Westerlies?
These human-made chemicals are destroying the ozone layer
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
23 1/2 degrees North Latitude is the Tropic of _______________
What is Cancer?
This is the name of the large landmass that once contained all the continents
What is Pangaea?
This is the percentage of the Earth's water that is saltwater.
What is 97%
This is the name for the climate zone with warm, dry temperatures and grasses and shrubs.
What is Steppe?
The ozone layer is important because ______________________
What is it shields harmful rays from the sun that could cause skin cancer?
Human Environment Interaction is __________________
What is how humans affect their environment and how their environment affects them?
This theory explains how the continents were formed and why they move
These are the name for rivers or steams that feed into larger rivers.
What are tributaries?
What climate zone do we live in? The defining characteristics are hot, wet summers and cold, somewhat wet winters. Deciduous forests are common vegetation.
Humid Continental
Deforestation in the rain forest is concerning because ________________
What is the trees are necessary for replacing the oxygen in the air?
List the 5 themes of Geography
What are Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Regions, and Movement?