maps
This type of map had boundaries and names of places on it.
What is a political map?
This is a graphic that displays a country's population broken down by age group and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
This is at zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This person predicts weather patterns.
Who is a meteorologist?
This is abbreviated GDP.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
This map element includes cardinal directions such as north, south, east, or west.
What is a compass rose?
This is the general study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
What is geography?
This is the cyclical warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
What is El Nino?
This is the reason that different places on Earth experience seasons at different times.
What is Earth's tilt and rotation?
In this essential aspect of geography you would learn about the creation of mountains.
What is physical systems?
This is the term that refers to the exact given location on a globe.
What is absolute location?
This is why deserts are often sparsely populated.
What is a lack of rain makes growing crops and drinking water difficult.
This climate zone has cool summers, cold and harsh winters, a dry climate, and sparse vegetation.
What is the Tundra?
The Jones family lives on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains where it's wet a lot. The Greers live on the eastern side. This is the most likely climate the Greers experience.
What is a dry climate with little rainfall?
This gas forms 21% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
It takes this long for Earth to travel around the sun.
What is approximately 365 days?
This is where surface water collects if it does not flow to the ocean.
What is wetlands?
This is the process by which fertile land converts into desert.
What is desertification?
This layer of Earth is comprised mainly of extremely hot liquid metals.
What is the outer core?
Rising sea levels recorded due to melting glaciers are considered an observable indication of this.
What is global warming?
The majority of Earth's freshwater can be found here.
What are polar ice caps?
If the current trends continue, this will happen to the Himalayan Mountains in the next million years.
What is they will continue to grow because of plate collision?
This is the location of the largest desert in the world.
Where is the Sahara Desert in North Africa?
This is why flood in urban areas are particularly dangerous.
What is the flood waters spread pollutants and diseases more rapidly?
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?