Weather or Climate
World Climates
Vocabulary
Natural Resources
Review
100
The short term changes in the air for a given place and time
What is weather
100
The number of general climate zones
What is five
100
seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air
What is monsoon
100
any material in nature that people use and value
What is natural resource
100
two branches of geography
What is physical geography and human geography
200
Expected weather for a place based on data and experience
What is climate
200
Climate region defined as freezing cold, snow and ice, little precipitation
What is Polar Ice Cap
200
permanently frozen layers of soil
What is permafrost
200
trees are considered what type of resources
What is renewable
200
science of making maps
What is cartography
300
Where are solar rays more concentrated?
What is near the equator
300
Type of plant that thrives in Dry Desert climate regions
What is Cactus/Cacti
300
Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of Earth
What is Prevailing Winds
300
true or false: renewable resources will last forever no matter how they are used
What is false
300
Regions close to the equator
What are tropics
400
It's summer in the United States. It's this season in Australia
What is Winter
400
Location of Tropical Humid Tropical Climate
What is on and near the equator
400
the spread of desert like conditions
What is desertification
400
name for metals, salt, rocks, and gemstones
What is mineral resource
400
The movement of sediment from one location to another
What is erosion
500
Water heats and cools slower or faster than land does
What is slower
500
Type of climate a zebra naturally lives in
What is tropical savanna climate
500
nonrenewable resources that formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals
What is fossil fuels
500
Saudi Arabia is rich in what?
What is oil
500
location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, regions
What are the Five Themes of Geography
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