The Basics
How far something travels?
What is linear distance?
The sun, planets, and celestial objects that orbit the sun.
What is the solar system?
Two-dimensional representation of the Earth.
What is a map?
Condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time.
What is weather?
A zone around the Pacific where most active volcanoes are found.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Enormous pieces of Earth that move.
What are plate tectonics?
A three-dimensional representation of the Earth.
What is a globe?
How long it takes something to travel a distance.
What is time?
Weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Can form quickly and without warning.
What is a tornado?
To describe the Earth.
What is geographia?
The thin layer of rock at the Earth's surface.
What is the crust?
How people view a distance from one location to another.
What is psychological distance?
Transfer of heat through the upward motion of air.
What is convection?
The warming of waters off the west coast of Europe.
What is El Niño?
A mapmaker.
Who is a cartographer?
The center of the Earth.
What is the core?
What are the Five Themes of Geography?
What is 1. Location, 2. Place, 3. Human-environment interaction, 4. movement, and 5. region
Some scientists argue that global temperature increases are caused by this.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Heavy concentration of trees.
What are forestlands?
The study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features.
What is geography?
The theory that the supercontinent divided and drifted slowly.
What is the continental drift hypothesis?
Lines that measure the distance from the equator.
What is latitude?
What causes the seasons to change?
What is the Earth’s revolution and tilt?
Plants, humans, and animals have all adapted to survive in these extreme conditions.
What is the desert/tundra?