This is a fertile, yellow-gray soil deposited by wind.
What is loess?
100
Global winds that blow in fairly constant patterns
What are prevailing winds?
100
This is land built up by deposits of salt and sand at the mouth of many rivers, like the Mississippi.
What is a delta?
100
A large stream of water flowing through the land into a lake, ocean, or other body of water. The Danube is one.
What is a river?
100
The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart.
What is continental drift?
200
The lowest dry land point on the Earth's surface, at 1,349 feet below sea level, is located here.
What is the Dead Sea?
200
The narrow, generally windless area near the equator. Sails won't do you much good here.
What are the doldrums?
200
The Amazon is one of these, an area of land largely surrounded by higher land.
What is a basin?
200
This is a large body of water, usually salt water, partly or completely surrounded by land. Pirates once claimed there were seven of them.
What is a sea?
200
Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma? Red, hot magma.
300
The exact spot at which a place is found, sometimes using GPS.
What is absolute location?
300
This periodic change in ocean currents in the Pacfific Ocean has a dramatic impact on global weather patterns
What is El Nino?
300
A group of islands. Examples of this include Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, and Galapagos
What is an archipelago?
300
This is part of a sea or ocean that reaches into land; usually larger than a bay. Kuwait lies along one of these.
What is a gulf?
300
The process where the ehavier sea plate is pushed beneath the lighter continental plate, causing the formation of volcanos. The Andes were formed by this process.
What is subduction?
400
The way most people locate a place, by using the positioning of other places and objects.
What is relative location?
400
The side of the mountain range facing the wind.
What is the windward side?
400
Panama is an example of this landform, as it is a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
400
The place where a river empties into a larger body of water; the end of a river. The ancient city of Alexandria lies on one of these.
What is a delta?
400
A zone of high seismic and volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
A particular space with physical and human meaning.
What is a place?
500
Phenomenon that causes prevailing winds to blow diagonally instead of north-south.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
A piece of land that extends into a body of water and is surrounded on three sides by water. Italy is located on one of these.
What is a peninsula?
500
A plateau of land surface into the ocean but underwater. The Grand Banks is on one of these.
What is a continental shelf?
500
Wearing away of the Earth's surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water.