"The Grid"
These imaginary lines run horizontally around the Earth and are often referred to as "parallels."
What is latitude?
The Earth's crust is divided into these, which slowly move and reshape the Earth's surface over millions of years.
What are plate tectonics?
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place, involving temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and other factors.
What is weather?
When there is clean drinking water, plenty of food, and available medical care, this goes up; when drinking water is untreated, food is scarce, and there are few doctors, this goes down.
What is life expectancy?
This biome is a region where it is too cold and windy for tall trees to grow.
What is the tundra?
This line is designated as zero degrees longitude and runs through Greenwich, London, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the process by which broken-down materials are transported away.
What is erosion?
The large desert in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara?
When a person leaves their home to escape war or a natural disaster, they are responding to this type of factor.
What is a push factor?
This is the molecule in the air that provides the building blocks for trees to grow -- in other words, it's what makes trees literally grow "out of thin air."
What is carbon dioxide?
The Southern Ocean includes this line of latitude that shares its name with a nearby continent.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
When trees are cut down at a faster rate than they can grow back, this is happening.
What is deforestation?
The large rainforest in South America.
What is the Amazon?
This is the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer of a region.
What is population density?
This is a natural boundary on mountains where it becomes too cold and harsh for trees to grow.
What is the treeline (or timberline)?
When you define a position on Earth using the position's longitude and latitude, you are using this version of a certain Theme of Geography.
What is absolute (or exact) location?
The Hoover Dam and the Panama Canal are both large-scale examples of which Theme of Geography that involves changing the land to benefit people's needs?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
The place on Earth that receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the Equator?
This is the condition of having fewer resources than others in a community or country, but not so few that it's life-threatening.
This is Mr. Stone's pug.
Who is Dexter?
Unlike the Antimeridian that runs straight down from the North Pole to the South Pole, this line is jagged to ensure certain countries aren't split between two different days.
What is the International Date Line?
This plate boundary involves an oceanic plate diving under a continental plate, often resulting in mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
What is a subduction zone?
These two phenomena, when combined, cause the Earth to have seasons.
This is the language family that includes languages as diverse as Hindi, Kurdish, Gaelic, English, Armenian, and Icelandic (but not Finnish).
What is Indo-European?
This is the cat who can drive a car.
Who is Toonces?