Geography Basics
This is the study of the human and nonhuman features of Earth.
What is geography?
This is the daily condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
This is a group of plants and animals that depend on one another and their environment for survival.
What is an ecosystem?
This type of map shows political units, such as countries or states.
What is a Political Map?
This explains how and why people, goods and ideas move from place to place.
What is MOVEMENT?
North, south, east, and west
What are cardinal directions?
This is the average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
These are regions on Earth that are made up of similar communities of plants and animals.
What are biomes?
This type of map shows physical, or natural features of a place.
What is a Physical Map?
This is an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature.
What is REGION?
These directions lie between the cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions?
This is heaviest near the Equator where moist air is heated and rises.
What is precipitation?
This ecosystem has closely growing trees.
What is a forest ecosystem?
This is a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.
What is a compass rose?
This these describes finding where a place is.
What is LOCATION?
This is the position north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
This is a measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
Moist temperate climates support thick _______ forests of deciduous trees.
What is temperate?
This is the main way to show information about Earth surface.
What are maps?
This is a mix of human and nonhuman features.
What is PLACE?
This is the position in degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
This is the climate region we live in.
What is a temperate climate?
This ecosystem has ice caps and tundra.
What is a cold climate ecosystem?
These can be hard to use when looking for specific features such as roads on a photograph.
What are Aerial Photographs?
This considers how people affect their environment or natural surroundings and how their environment might affect them.
What is HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?