Vocabulary
Landforms
Bodies of Water
Climate and Vegetation
Population and Settlement
100
An area on Earth near the equator and is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
What is a tropic?
100
Once thought of as a supercontinent
What is Pangea?
100
The deepest body of water that covers the most area
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
The opposite of a tropical climate
What is a polar climate?
100
Many of the first people settled along here
What are rivers?
200
The drier side of a mountain
What is rain shadow?
200
This process drops sediment in new areas creating new or enlarging landforms.
What is deposition?
200
the two things that can cause tidal waves
What are earthquakes and severe storms?
200
areas with thick vegetation and tall trees found in some tropical regions
What are rain forests?
200
Easiest place for people to live instead of on a mountain
What is on flat land near water?
300
helps determine the clothes that you wear, the shelters you build, and the foods that might grow in the area
What is climate?
300
Created when two plates push together and their edges crumple and fold
What are mountain ranges?
300
the location where about 77% of Earth's freshwater are found in these two places
What are glaciers and ice caps?
300
Because of this, it is possible to find places with cold climate in the middle of a larger region with warm climate
What is altitude?
300
The movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
400
The change of fertile land into desert land
What is desertification?
400
Formed when two plates push against each other and the edge of one plate slides beneath the other
What are volcanoes?
400
formed by melting of snowfields and glaciers
What are streams?
400
This region is expanding because of overfarming, overgrazing, and overlogging
What are desert regions?
400
The use of connected ditches, canals, or pipes to carry water to dry areas.
What is irrigation?
500
The movement of people from the countryside to the cities
What is urbanization?
500
People in Asia terraced mountain side to grow this food
What is rice?
500
Can be made by humans who build dams to control rivers
What are lakes?
500
occurs because the Earth is tilted on its axis as it travels around the Sun
What is climates?
500
The largest metropolitan area in the world
What is Tokyo, Japan?
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