Earth & Sun
This causes only half of Earth to receive sunlight at one time.
What is rotation?
The study of landforms, climate, plants, and animals.
What is physical geography?
A stretch of mostly flat land.
What is a plain?
Imaginary lines that run north and south through the poles.
What are lines of longitude?
This theme explains why and how people move from place to place
What is movement?
This explains why Earth is sometimes closer to the sun and sometimes farther away.
What is revolution?
This decreases as elevation increases.
What is temperature?
Land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
Imaginary lines that run east and west and are also called parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
This theme describes where a place is located.
What is location?
These imaginary lines help determine how directly the sun’s rays hit Earth.
What is latitude?
A large region made up of several ecosystems.
What is a biome?
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A map that shows population, climate zones, or economic data.
What is a thematic map?
How people adapt to and change their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
Two factors that affect how much sunlight a location receives.
What are Earth’s movement and tilt?
The land, water, climate, plants, and animals of an area.
What is the environment?
This is an example of a physical region.
What is the Sahara?
A map that shows country boundaries and capital cities.
What is a political map?
Dividing the world into smaller areas to study it more easily.
What are regions?
Areas near this line receive direct sunlight most of the year.
What is the Equator?
The place where a plant or animal lives.
What is a habitat?
A landform best studied in physical geography rather than human geography.
What is a mountain (or desert, river, etc.)?
One advantage globes have over maps.
What is that they show the Earth as it really is?
The physical and human features that make a place unique.
What is place?