Anything Goes
Potluck
Around the Earth
Geography
Could be a Repeat
100
Location, Place, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction, Region
What is the 5 themes of Geography?
100
0 degrees latitude
What is The Equator?
100
this has 4 distinct seasons
What is the temperate zone?
100
very cool to bitterly cold
What is the polar climate zone?
100
day-to-day changes in the air
What is weather?
200
These are also referred to as lines of latitude
What are Parallels?
200
Lines of longitude are also called this
What are meridians?
200
The rotation of the Earth on it's axis
What is what causes night and day?
200
Which is more accurate, a map or globe
What is a globe?
200
this process breaks rocks down
What is weathering?
300
the symbol on a map that shows the four cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
300
the section of a map that explains the symbols for the map
What is the key?
300
these are cracks in the Earth's crust
What are faults?
300
the tropic of capricorn is located along this parallel
What is 23 1/2 degrees S
300
this process carries weathered particles away
What is erosion?
400
0 degrees longitude
What is The Prime Meridian?
400
This climate zone is almost always hot
What is the tropical zone?
400
23 1/2 degrees N
What is the tropic of cancer?
400
a thick layer of special gases surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
400
this is a chain of active volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
500
Name the 7 continents
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia?
500
Name the four major Oceans
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans?
500
List the 5 major climate regions in the world
What are tropical, dry, moderate, continental, and polar?
500
Explain why a region would have 4 seasons where another might remain almost always hot.
What is the Earth's tilt allows more direct sunlight at the tropics, giving those areas constant warm weather. A region having 4 seasons gets less direct sunlight, causing 4 distinct seasons as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
500
A single landmass that scientists theorize existed millions of years ago
What is Pangaea?
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