Thinking Like a Geographer
What is the study of the earth
geography
What are tools, pottery, paintings, weapons left behind by those who lived long ago....
artifacts
What are the seven massive land areas
continents
What is soil deposited at the mouth of a river that builds up over time?
Delta
Why do people in Australia snow-ski during the Northern Hemisphere's summer months?
because it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere at that time
What are individual features of the land
Landforms
What are human or animal remains
fossils
What is the theory that states the crust is not an unbroken shell but, consists of plates or huge slabs of rock that move
theory of plate tectonics
What are tall mountains and very deep valleys that line the ocean floor?
Trenches
What are the plains that reach the middle of the continent to the coast?
North European Plain
What are natural surroundings
environment
What is the earth, eight other planets, and thousands of smaller bodies that all revolve around the sun.
the solar system
What is a violent and sudden movement of the earth's crust
earthquake
What is a piece of land with water on 3 sides
peninsula
What is the tallest mountain in the world and how high is it?
Mt Everest, 29, 035 feet
What is an area that share common characteristics
region
What is the layer of air surrounding the earth
atmosphere
What is the process of breaking surface rock into boulders, gravel, sand, and soil
weathering
What is a wider passage that connects two larger bodies of water?
channel
What is the channel that separates southeastern Africa from the island of Madagascar?
The Mozambique Channel
What is a special device that receives signals from satellites traveling around the earth
Global Positioning System (GPS)
What is the day with the most hours of sunlight
summer solstice
What is the process of wearing away or moving weathered material by water, wind or ice?
erosion
What is a narrow body of water that flows between two pieces of land?
Strait
What is the strait that flows between the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia's island of Sumatra?
The Strait of Malacca