What are people/pollution, latitude/the sun, elevation/landforms, ocean currents/water, and prevailing winds?
100
This is weather
What is the condition of the bottom layer of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place?
100
The two types of geography
What are physical geography and human geography?
200
The prevailing winds in the middle latitudes
What are the prevailing westerlies?
200
An example of the marine west coast climate
What is Seattle, Portland, etc.
200
The days when the sun is directly overhead to viewers at the equator, when all places on Earth have equal amounts of sunlight
What are the spring and autumnal equinoxes?
200
This is a long rainy season
What is a monsoon?
200
Give three examples of landforms
What are plateaus, buttes, rivers, etc.?
300
The warm water current that is a continuation of the Gulf Stream
What is the North Atlantic Current?
300
The area with the most drastic shifts in temperature for the seasons
What is the mid latitudes or the temperate zone?
300
The day in the northern hemisphere when the sun appears directly overhead to viewers at the Tropic of Cancer; this is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the summer solstice?
300
In the Atlantic they are hurricanes, but in the Atlantic they are _______
What are typhoons?
300
The type of geography that invasive species belong to
What is human geography?
400
The cold water current that affects the west coast of the United States
What is the California Current?
400
This is making the Earth warmer and is increased by pollution
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
This is one complete orbit around the sun made by the Earth
What is a revolution?
400
This is another word for the leeward side of a mountain, the side that is often in drought because of all the rain on the windward side
What is the rain shadow?
400
This is the theory that all the continents were once part of a supercontinent called Pangea
What is continental drift theory or plate tectonics?
500
The area of calm near the equator
What are the Doldrums?
500
These are most drastic in the mid latitudes, and they are caused by the sun and Earth's tilt on its axis
What are the seasons?
500
A tsunami
What is a massive wave generated by underwater earthquakes?
500
This is the term given to land that is frozen solid year after year