Climate Regions
A place that has high temperatures and lots of precipitation.
What's the tropical region?
I have a peak and I'm taller than a hill.
What's a mountain?
Name the thing on a map that shows the 4 cardinal directions.
What's a compass?
A mountain that has an opening and molten rock can leak out.
What's a volcano?
This pole has penguins.
What's the South Pole?
You can find grizzly bears, lichen, and glaciers here.
What's the polar region?
Like a mountain but with a flat top.
What's a plateau?
The line in the middle of the Earth and has the hottest areas.
What's the equator?
When the tectonic plates move or shift, they cause...
What's an earthquake?
Lines on the map that go horizontal.
What is longitude?
It has all four seasons.
What's the temperate region?
A naturally flowing stream of freshwater.
What's a river?
This shows the distance on the map compared to the distance on the ground.
What's a scale?
A natural diaster event that can happen here in Ontario.
What's a tornado?
Forces that come from the movement of the earth’s crust
What are tectonic forces?
It includes countries like Canada, Russia, Sweden, and even France
What's the continental region?
Known to carve the landscape and create new valleys and rivers.
What's the glacier?
Draw a compass
Ms B will check.
Tornados are shorter periods and smaller
Hurricanes are bigger and longer period
Tornados are just wind
Hurricanes are wind, rain, and floods
Describe geography.
It is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
This region has two caterogies: cold and hot.
What's the desert region?
Australia, New Zealand, and The Philippines are considered this landform.
What's an island?
A map needs 4 things. What are they?
1. title
2. compass
3. scale
4. legend
The name of the supercontinent.
What's Pangea?
How much damage did Hurricane Katrina cause? Name 2.
1200 people died
$125 billion of damage