Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Agriculture/Forests
Landforms
Continents
100
GPS
What is a group of satellites traveling around the earth?
100
Fault
What is a crack in the earth's crust?
100
Warming the Earth causes this.
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
Mountains
What is the cause of two continental plates smashing together?
100
The coldest, most southern continent in the world.
What is Antarctica?
200
Plateaus
What is the flat areas at higher elevations?
200
Landform
What is an individual feature of the land, like mountians or valleys?
200
Less rainfall is the result of this.
What is the effect of cutting down rain forests?
200
Low Temperatures in this elevation.
What is higher elevation?
200
Our Continent
What is North America?
300
Plate
What is a huge slab of rock?
300
Plains
What is a low-lying stretches of flat or gently rolling land?
300
Crop Rotation
What is the process farmers use to avoid using all the minerals in the soil?
300
Glaciers are full of this.
What is freshwater?
300
California's coast is located in the ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
GIS
What is a computer software used to map the earth?
400
Environment
What is natural surroundings?
400
Human and Physical
What is the two types of geography?
400
This carries soil away, making the land less fertile.
What is erosion?
400
This continent has the most countries.
What is Europe?
500
Ecosystems
What is a place where plants and animals are dependent upon one another and their particular surroundings?
500
Canyons
What is a steep-sided lowland that rivers have cut?
500
Large cities usually have higher temp. than urban areas
What is the difference between rural and urban areas in temperature?
500
Your state, town, and western U.S. is known as this.
What is a region?
500
This continent has the most people.
What is Asia?
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