Water Planet/Man's Impact
Thinking Like a Geographer
Culture
Earth in Space
Vegetation and Climate zones
100
This type of air holds more water vapor.
What is warm air?
100
These characteristics of a place include landforms, rainfall, fertile soil, and temperature.
What are physical characteristics?
100
This is the primary means of communication between people.
What is a language?
100
This is at the center of our solar system and made up of intensely hot gases.
What is the sun?
100
This zone has the greatest number of climates.
What is the Middle Latitude zone?
200
This term measures the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Dams, bridges, roads and buildings are these type of characteristics of a place?
What are human characteristics?
200
In this form of limited government, power rests with the people.
What is a democracy?
200
Number of days the Earth takes to orbit the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
200
This climate is found in Italy, Greece, and Spain.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
300
El Ninos and La Ninas occur in this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
300
A school district, towns, counties, and states are examples of these created by geographers.
What are regions?
300
These terms can also be used for capitalism.
What is a market or free enterprise economy?
300
Made up of the Earth, sun, eight other planets and thousands of smaller bodies.
What is our solar system?
300
Because of the elevation, this climate is cool or cold year round.
What is a highland climate?
400
Scientists fear this will raise the Earth's temperature.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
This device gets readings from satellites giving users exact locations on earth.
What is a GPS?
400
In this type of economy, the government makes all the decisions.
What is a command system?
400
This calendar date only occurs every four years.
What is February 29th?
400
This Russian term means "treeless plain".
What is a steppe?
500
Cities create these when compared to the temperatures of the surrounding land areas.
What is a heat island?
500
This is caused by a sudden movement of the earth's crust.
What is a earthquake?
500
This term describes the movement of people from farms or villages to cities.
What is urbanization?
500
This day of the year has the most daylight and shortest night.
What is the summer solstice?
500
This type of vegetation is found at the ice caps.
What are lichens and moss.
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