Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Changing Planet
What is Geography
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100
The study of the Earth's surface.
What is geography?
100
An area where places are grouped together because of their shared qualities.
What is region?
100
The Earth's outermost layer
What is the crust?
100
Cartography is the study of __________.
What is mapmaking?
100
Technology to find you or help you get to where you're going.
What is gps?
200
The physical world and its natural processes.
What is environment?
200
A type of remote sensing that uses radio waves to determine the distance, direction, and height of objects.
What is radar?
200
The theory of plate __________ states that the Earth’s crust is made up of many moving plates.
What is tectonics?
200
__________ is the study of human populations and how they grow or decline.
What is demography?
200
Aerial photography, satellite imagery, and radar are all examples.
What is remote sensing?
300
The shared values, practices, and beliefs of a group.
What is Culture?
300
Programs that are used to accomplish tasks on a computer.
What is software?
300
When two plates collide.
What is converge?
300
The two main branches of geography.
What is physical and human geography?
300
A story told by someone who was there.
What is a primary source?
400
To spin around in place.
What is rotate?
400
The capability of being believed; trustworthiness.
What is credibility?
400
Another name for supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
400
Some geographers study Earth’s natural features, such as
What are ecosystems and weather patterns?
400
What is tornado?
500
The study of the Earth’s atmosphere and its weather conditions.
What is meteorology?
500
The amount of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is humidity?
500
Seafloor spreading and rift valleys occur at __________ boundaries.
What is divergent?
500
Demography and urban planning included are included under this branch of geography.
What is human geography?
500
Very hot. Transformed to liquid.
What is molten?