5 themes of geography
Movement
How geography impacts the travel or movement of people, things and ideas
Boundaries
Where two tectonic plates meet
Weathering definition
Break down of rocks at or near the Earth's surface
Rotation
How the Earth spins on its axis
Natural resources
Materials that people take from the natural environment to survive and to satisfy their needs
Regions
Group of places that have at least 1 thing in common
3 types of boundaries
Convergent
Divergent
Transformative
Erosion
Movement of weathered materials
Revolution
Earth's orbit around the sun
Renewable resources versus nonrenewable resources
Renewable can be replenished by the Earth in a reasonable amount of time. Nonrenewable cannot
Human-environment interaction
How people use their environment
Relationship between humans and their environment
How tectonic plates move
Hot magma rises up, reaches surface, cools, falls back down
Climate
Weather that happens in a specific region
Greenhouse effect
Trapping of sun's uv rays in Earth's atmosphere
Heats up Earth's surface
Developed countries versus developing countries
Developed countries have industries and modern technology. Developing countries rely on developed countries for a lot of manufactured goods.
Location
Where a given place is located
Absolute vs Relative
Hotspots
Random places where magma works its way up to the surface. Creates island chains.
2 types of weathering
Mechanical and chemical
Equator
Latitudinal line set at 0 degrees
Receives the most sun
Warmest place on the Earth
Culture
Beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life
Place
How certain places differ from one another
Name the 7 continents
North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Antarctica, Asia, Africa
Troposphere
Atmosphere where weather happens
How the Earth's position in relation to the sun creates seasons
Earth is on a tilted axis and as it orbits the sun certain parts of the Earth are either closer or farther away from the sun. Those farthest away have a winter while those closest have summer.
The 5 climate zones
Tropics, dry, temperate, continental, and tundra