Two ways that help answer the question "Where is it?"
What are absolute and relative location?
100
Hurricanes form in this Latitude Area.
What is the Low Latitude or Tropical Area.
100
This is the reason why we have 4 seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100
This is the layer of Earth we live on.
What is the Lithosphere?
100
The changing of rock into a new substance is known as this type of weathering.
What is Chemical Weathering?
200
This imaginary line is found at 0' Latitude
What is the Equator?
200
This factor states that the higher you travel, the colder it gets.
What is Elevation?
200
When North America is enjoying summer time, Australia is experiencing which season?
What is Winter?
200
This 'sphere contains all of Earth's water elements.
What is the Hydrosphere?
200
This type of region is based on personal attitudes about certain areas.
What is a Perceptual Region?
300
This line on a map is also called a Parallel.
What is a Latitude Line?
300
This factor deals with a place's location in relation to large bodies of water.
What is Continentiality?
300
The term for weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time.
What is climate?
300
When tectonic plates slip, this immediate natural disaster is caused.
What is an Earthquake?
300
1. To find relationships between humans and the environment.
2. To see visual representations of different parts of the earth.
What are reasons geographers study maps?
400
This line is also called a Meridian.
What is a Longitude line?
400
This effect states that when air cools and produces precipitation on one side of a mountain, it loses moisture as it travels higher, therefore causing the other side to be dry.
What is the Orographic Effect.
400
The leaves of these type of trees change throughout the course of a year.
What are Deciduous trees?
400
This theory states that Earth is made up of giant puzzle pieces that are constantly moving.
What is the Plate Tectonic Theory?
400
A graphic representation of an area's precipitation and temperature averages over the course of time.
What is a Climagraph?
500
South America is located in these three hemispheres.
What is the North, South, and Western hemispheres?
500
This phenomena occurs when waters along the coast of South America become warmer than usual.
What is El Nino.
500
The sun's rays are concentrated on this line of latitude during our WINTER
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
The four ways tectonic plates move.
What is Slip, Converge-Collision, Converge-Subduction, Diverge-Spread?