Physical Geography
Large masses of slow-moving ice
What are glaciers?
The spread of culture traits
What is cultural diffusion?
These winds shift directions with the seasons and bring wet and dry seasons
What are monsoons?
The process of leaving one place to live in another
What is migration?
Resources that are replaced naturally
What are renewable resources?
These can be of any size and can occur wherever air, water, and soil support life
What are ecosystems?
The rate at which a population is changing
What is the rate of natural increase?
A place where two different air masses meet
This measures distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude
Permanently frozen layers of soil
What is permafrost?
The spread of desertlike conditions
What is desertification?
A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry
What is an ethnic group?
Average weather conditions over a long period of time is called this
What is climate?
The science of making maps
What is cartography?
Earth's yearly trip around the sun is called this
What is a revolution?
The largest continent in the world
What is Asia?
World population to the nearest billion
What is 8 billion?
The rainiest season in a monsoon climate
What is summer?
The study of the world's people, communities, and the landscapes they create
What is geography?
One complete spin of the earth on it's axis is called this
What is a rotation?
The deepest place in the ocean
What is the Marianas Trench?
When people move from one place to another
What is migration?
Within 5 inches, the annual rainfall in Florence, Alabama
What is 52 inches?
A type of food that originated in New Orleans
What is cajun food?
Coal, natural gas, and oil are examples of this type of resource
What are fossil fuels (or nonrenewable)?