A line of latitude that circles the globe exactly halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
What is the Equator?
100
The study of the Earth
What is geography?
100
Shapes and types of land such as mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains.
What are landforms?
100
Total number of people.
What is population?
100
The way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
What is culture?
200
The earth turns around this, an imaginary line running through it between the North and South poles. This tilt also causes seasons.
What is the axis?
200
The theme of location is most clearly defined by the use of these two kinds of imaginary lines that run around the earth.
What are latitude and longitude?
200
The name for the huge landmass that some scientists believe existed on Earth.
What is Pangaea?
200
The average number of years that people live.
What is life expectancy?
200
Helps people use natural resources and change the environment, and includes computers and the Internet as well as other tools and the skills needed to make them.
What is technology?
300
The number of days that it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution, or journey, around the sun.
What is 365 1/4?
300
Other than location, one of the remaining four themes of geography.
What are Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions?
300
This type of resource provides for the needs of people such as food, clothing, and shelter. Examples include soil, water, minerals, and vegetation.
What is a natural resource?
300
Scientists who study population?
What are Demographers?
300
Standards of accepted behavior.
What are ethics?
400
These two lines of latitude set off distinct regions, one at 66 degrees north of the Equator, and the other at 66 degrees south of the Equator.
What are the Arctic and Antarctic Circles?
400
The part of a map that explains the symbols used for landmarks, such as roads or towns.
What is the key (or legend)?
400
_______ is the day-to-day changes in the air. ______ is the average weather of a place over many years.
What are weather and climate?
400
Many people are moving from ______, or country, areas to ______, or city, areas.
What are rural and urban?
400
The system that sets up and enforces a society's laws and institutions.
What is government?
500
The sun shines directly above this line of latitude on June 21 or 22 (the summer solstice), and directly above this other line of latitude on December 21 or 22 (the winter solstice).
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
North, South, East, and West.
What are the cardinal directions?
500
These are the five broad types of climate, each having its own unique vegetation.
What are tropical, dry, moderate, continental, and polar?
500
People who leave one country and move to another.
What are immigrants?
500
A system for producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services.