This is the study of people, places, and their environments.
What is geography?
100
Gunpowder traveled from this country to the Middle East before it was made into a weapon.
What is China?
100
The very center of the Earth. Also used in reference to the portion of the apple that most people don't eat.
What is the core?
100
This massive ice sheet is a primary cause of erosion.
What is a glacier?
100
How people use their environment.
What is interaction?
200
Molten rock.
What is lava?
200
This continent is home to Mount Kilimanjaro and the Nile River.
What is Africa?
200
The theory that the Earth's outer shell is not one piece, but many.
What is Plate Tectonics?
200
Daily Double! This question is worth twice as many points. This chain of volcanoes extends nearly 25,000 miles around the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand to Chile. Also, a popular song by Johnny Cash.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
If you are across the street from someone, you are describing this.
What is relative location?
300
From the Latin, meaning 'study of the Earth'.
What is Geology?
300
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Movements of the Earth's surface that bend the rock layers underneath result in this type of formation.
What is a fold?
300
Without moisture, this type of weathering rarely occurs.
What is Chemical?
300
Natural and human features are characteristics of this.
What is place?
400
Double Daily. This question is worth twice as many points. The Romans named these after their god of fire and metalworking.
What are volcanoes?
400
This ocean was named by the Greeks, after a famous city that sank beneath it's waves.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Most volcanoes and geysers occur near the edges of continental plates, but some form in the center of a tectonic plate because of these.
What is a hot spot?
400
This mineral-rich soil can travel thousands of miles in the air before falling to the ground.
What is loess?
400
No place exists in isolation. This theme makes sure of that.
What is movement?
500
Translated from Greek, this word means "all earth", and is the name of an ancient supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
500
Of the top 25 most poisonous animals in the world, 23 live here.
What is Australia?
500
To prove his theory of continental drift, this man showed similar fossils from different continents.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
An old fence, a crumbling statue, and a cracked sidewalk all have this in common.
What is weathering?
500
The Amazon Drainage Basin and the Denver Metropolitan area are both examples of this.