Earth’s Spheres
This sphere includes all water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Long-term temperature and precipitation patterns are known as this.
What is climate?
Regions defined by official boundaries are known as this type.
What is a formal region?
Wearing light clothing in hot climates is an example of this.
What is adaptation?
River valleys are centers of settlement mainly because they provide this.
What is fertile soil and water supply?
This sphere includes Earth’s crust: rocks, land, and soil.
What is the lithosphere?
Day-to-day atmospheric conditions are called this.
What is weather?
Houston and its suburbs make up this type of region.
What is a functional region?
Building a dam across a river is an example of this.
What is modification?
Population is sparse in the Andes due to this physical factor.
What are high elevation and cold climate?
This sphere includes all living things on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
The biome with mosses, lichens, and permafrost is this.
What is tundra?
Regions based on people’s ideas or feelings are called this.
What is a perceptual region?
The Netherlands built dikes and canals for this reason.
The Netherlands built dikes and canals for this reason.
Deserts require irrigation farming because they lack this.
What is rainfall?
This sphere includes the gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The Köppen “Af” biome refers to this tropical environment.
What is tropical rainforest?
“The South” is an example of this type of region.
What is a perceptual region?
Cutting down the Amazon rainforest is an example of this human action.
What is modification?
This climate zone supports the world’s largest populations due to fertile soil and reliable rainfall.
What is the temperate zone?
Which sphere is most affected when deforestation reduces biodiversity?
What is the biosphere?
This factor, along with latitude and ocean currents, explains why mountains are cooler at the top.
What is elevation?
Trade networks and transportation hubs form which type of region?
What is a functional region?
Wearing heavy coats in Alaska is an example of this.
What is adaptation?
High elevations are sparsely populated because of these two challenges.
What are cooler temperatures and difficult farming?