Because of it's spherical nature this geographic tool is inherently more accurate than any map in its portrayal of the Earth.
What is a GLOBE?
100
These are the 4 layers of the earth.
What are the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
100
This is a process by which Earth's surface is worn away by forces such as wind, rain, chemicals, and the movement of ice and flowing water.
What is weathering?
100
Both of these land-forms are flat but one rises above the surrounding land.
What is the difference between a plain and a plateau?
200
These are the two main branches of geographic study (one studies natural features, the other man made geographic features).
What are Physical and Human Geography?
200
These features are the three most important parts of any map.
What is The key/legend, the scale bar, and the compass rose?
200
These are the 4 physical systems of the earth.
What are the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?
200
This is the process by which weathered bits of rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
200
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Ex: Central American country of Panama.
What is an isthmus?
300
This is the name Eratosthenes gave to the study of Earth, its peoples, places, and environments.
What is Geography?
300
This is a type of map that portrays countries, cities, and other man made boundaries/features.
What is a POLITICAL MAP?
300
These are the 6 elements that affect climate remembered by a mnemonic.
What are Latitude, Elevation, Mountain Barriers, Proximity to Large bodies of water, Ocean Currents, , and Storms (LEMPOS)?
300
The earth's rigid crust is made up of 16 enormous pieces called plates. They vary in size and shape and how they move.
What are plate tectonics?
300
This is process uses distillation to remove most of the salt from sea water.
What is Desalination?
400
These are the 5 themes of geography.
What are location, movement, place, region, and human-environment interaction?
400
These are the two main types of maps.
What is a REFERENCE/GENERAL PURPOSE map for general use, and a THEMATIC map for a map displaying one specific type of information?
400
One is based only on current conditions while the other measures conditions throughout the average year for a given location.
What is difference between WEATHER and CLIMATE?
400
This is a seismically active crack in the earth's crust.
What is a fault line?
400
This occurs when water has "disappeared" from a mud puddle on a sunny day.
What is evaporation?
500
This is a term for two or more places that share and be defined by one or more characteristics.
What is a REGION?
500
One is a computerized system for storing and displaying different types of mapped information, while the other is a series of satellites transmitting precise coordinates about one's location on the earth's surface.
What is a Geographic Information System and a Global Positioning System?
500
These are are the 6 basic types of climate zones.
What are Tropical, Desert, Humid Temperate, Cold Temperate, Polar, and High Mountain?
500
These are the three types of plate movement under the earth.
What are Transform, Convergent, and Divergent?
500
These are rain forests, desert, tundra, temperate deciduous forests, boreal forest/taiga, chaparral, grassland, and savanna.