Elements of Geography
Earth's Structure
Climate and Weather
The Human World
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100
Another term for human geography.
What is cultural geography?
100
Molten rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
100
Keeps heat from escaping to quickly.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Growing food to sell at market.
What is commercial farming?
100
Thick layer of hot, dense rock
What is the mantle?
200
Line of latitude that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
Rocky outer shell that makes up the earth's surface.
What is the crust?
200
Causes of the seasons.
What is revolution and tilt?
200
All key powers held by national government.
What is a unitary government?
200
A place in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
300
Used to find the precise location of a place on earth.
What is the global grid system?
300
The reason earth's water remains fairly consistent.
What is the water cycle?
300
Region with the widest temperature ranges.
What is the subarctic?
300
Language, religion, social groups, government, and economic activities
What are elements of geography?
300
Southernmost point to receive direct sunlight.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
The exact spot of a place on earth.
What is absolute location?
400
solid, extremely hot
What is the inner core?
400
Northernmost point to receive direct sunlight.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
400
Resources that cannot be replaced.
What are nonrenewable resources?
400
Occur in March and September.
What is an equinox?
500
The study of connections between people and the physical environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
Large rocks are physically broken into smaller pieces.
What is physical weathering?
500
Natural vegetation of desert regions.
What is scattered scrub and cacti?
500
Tax on imports.
What is a tariff?
500
Growing enough food for local use.
What is subsistence farming?
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