Natural Resources
Landforms
5 Themes of Geography
Weather and Climate
A Geographer's World
100
A nonrenewable resource made from dead plants and animals
What is a fossil fuel?
100
An area in the desert with a water source.
What is an oasis?
100
The theme that describes where something is located.
What is location.
100
the short term changes in the air for a given place and time.
What is weather?
100
The study of the world, it's people, and the landscapes they create.
What is geography
200
The clearing of trees.
What is deforestation?
200
an area of land that sticks out into a lake or ocean and is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
This theme looks at how and why people and things move.
What is movement.
200
Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of Earth.
What are prevailing winds?
200
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas.
What is a region
300
These resources include metals, salt, rocks, and gemstones.
What are mineral resources?
300
A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a straight?
300
This theme would be a man in Florida, uses the land to grow crops.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
300
This climate zone has the subarctic, tundra, and ice caps.
What are the polar zones?
300
A flat drawing that shows all or part of the Earth's surface.
What is a map
400
This form of energy does not pollute the air, but does produce dangerous toxic wastes.
What is nuclear energy?
400
Physical features that make it difficult to travel or transport goods from one region to another.
What is transportation barrier
400
This theme would be like Washington, D.C., is our nation's capital and has many great monuments.
What is place?
400
This climate zone has the Humid Continental, Mediterranean, and tropical climates.
What is the Temperate Zone?
400
Lines that measure north or south of the equator. They run parallel to each other.
What is latitude
500
How people can conserve aluminum, glass, and plastics.
What is recycling?
500
An opening in the Earth's crust where lava, ash, and gasses erupt.
What is a volcano
500
An example of this theme would be the Mojave Desert. It is defined by its distinctive climate and plant life.
What is Region
500
The place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.
What is a front?
500
15 degrees north of the equator.
What is The Tropic of Cancer
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