These are all examples of this type of characteristic - landforms, vegetation, and climate.
What are physical characteristics?
100
The study of the earth's surface and the processes that shape it, the connections between places, and the complex relationships between people and environments.
What is geography?
100
These are the small particles of soil, sand, and gravel in water that aid in erosion.
What is sediment?
100
This is fine grained, mineral-rich loam, dust, or silt deposited by the wind.
What is loess?
100
This type of weathering occurs when the rock is only physically changed, for example broken.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
These are all examples of this type of characteristic - languages, customs, beliefs, economy, and government.
What are human characteristics?
200
The differences in elevation of the landfroms in any particular area.
What is relief?
200
This is the second major cause of erosion.
What is wind?
200
This is the freezing of water that breaks rock apart?
What is frost wedging?
200
This is a circle of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
300
Building, farming, and pollution are all forms of this type of interaction.
What is human-environment interaction?
300
This is a circular movement caused when a material is heated, expands and rises, then cools and falls. This is the cause of continental plate movement.
What is convection?
300
This is the leading cause of erosion.
What is water?
300
This type of mechanical weathering occurs when seeds develop and grow inside rock cracks causing the breakdown of rock.
What is seed/root wedging?
300
These are the types of forces that originally cause landforms. They take place within the earth.
What are internal forces?
400
An area in which a certain characteristic is found throughout the area.
What is a formal region?
400
The exact position on the earth in which a place can be found.
What is absolute location?
400
These are the third leading cause of erosion.
What are glaciers?
400
These are huge, slow moving sheets of ice.
What are glaciers?
400
This type of weathering occurs when the rocks chemical make up is changed resulting in a new material.
What is chemical weathering?
500
This region consists of one central place and the surrounding places affected by it.
What is a functional region?
500
The position of a place in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
500
This form of precipitation is high in chemicals usually from pollution. It eats away at the surface of stone and rock.
What is acid rain?
500
This type of shaped valley is the result of glacial erosion.
What is a U-shaped valley?
500
These forces change the shape of landforms. They take place on the earth's surface.