Geography terms
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Spheres
Changes within the Earth
Changes above the Earth
100
The study of where people and places are located.
What is geography?
100
Helps to collect and analyze data about the earth to solve geographic problems.
What is a GIS?
100
The layer of gases and water vapor above the earth
What is the Atmosphere?
100
The Earth's center, consisting of hot metal.
What is the Core?
100
Weather over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
200
All forms of water which fall to the earth.
What is precipitation?
200
It splits the Earth from North to South, or East to West.
What is hemisphere?
200
The world of plants, animals, and other living things.
What is the Biosphere?
200
A thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the crust.
What is the Mantle?
200
Small particles of soil, sand, and gravel
What is Sediment?
300
The large land masses on earth.
What are continents?
300
Events in a physical environment that are destructive, such as volcanoes and hurricanes.
What are Natural Hazards?
300
The water contained in oceans, lakes, rivers, and underground.
What is the Hydrosphere?
300
Examples of what forces shaped the Earth's landforms.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
300
Movement of weathered materials.
What is Erosion?
400
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points; the type of map which depicts this.
What is relief?
400
A certain position on the globe.
What is Absolute location?
400
The surface features of the Earth: soil, rocks, and landforms
What is Lithosphere?
400
Circle of Volcanoes around the Pacific.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
A huge and slow-moving sheet of ice.
What is a Glacier?
500
A place which is defined by people's feelings and attitudes.
What is perceptual region?
500
A certain place as defined by its location compared to another place.
What is Relative location?
500
When the continents were all together as one.
What is Pangea?
500
Large pieces of the earth which form a shell.
What are plate tectonics?
500
Fine-grained loam, dust, or silt blown by the wind.
What is Loess?
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