Maps and More
Of physical, political, special-purpose, and global, this is the name that doesn't belong with the others.
What is global? (The others are the three main types of maps.)
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__________ includes the temperature and precipitation averages. ___________ includes the temperature and precipitation of the current day.
What is climate and weather?
This is the study of human and non-human features on Earth
What is geography?
This object's temperature is what is affected most directly by the temperature of the water.
What is air?
This is the process in which Earth's plates shift 1-10 cm a year and move with differing effects.
What is plate tectonics?
LIGHTNING ROUND:
This way of showing the Earth is known by a famous acronym and keeps our position on Earth at all times with satellites.
What is GPS?
Different latitudes mean different conditions and include these three different latitude zones.
What is polar, temprate, and tropics?
One of these two questions are the two main questions geography comes down to answering
What is "where are things located" or "why are they there"
Of the water on Earth, there are two facts. ____ is salt water and _____ is freshwater
What is 97 and 3?
Lava can have many downfalls (literally) but it also has this potential benefit.
What is creating new land forms once it cools?
These would be three examples of things political maps may show
What is state lines, counties, countries
Climate is unique in different locations and these four main ways that describe location are important in helping us understand where things are.
What is cardinal directions, intermediate directions, longitude, and latitude?
We all know the Earth rotates on its axis, but we also all should know that it rotates in this direction.
What is east?
With the limited amount of freshwater on Earth, this is where most of it will be found?
What is frozen in the ice caps?
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Weathering comes down to two types: _______ which is due to moving water, ice or wind, and _________, which is due to rainfall and other acids carried dissolves rocks.
What is mechanical and chemical?
These would be three examples of things physical maps may show.
What are mountains, elevation, bodies of water?
With climate, there are many kinds. Many if many means three. From warm to cold and those in the middle, name those three main climate types
What is warm, temprate, and cold and dry
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A fundamental understanding of geography comes with knowing that the closer an area is to the Equator, the higher these two things will be.
What is temperature and precipitation?
The water cycle is ongoing and always moving with the water cycle. Name the four stages, in order.
These three natural phenomenons form from plate tectonics in this order: when they push together, when they slide together, and when ocean crust goes beneath land crust.
What are mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes?
These would be three examples of things special-purpose maps may show.
What is precipitation, statistics, trends?
A question that is worthy of 500 points, name the five main biomes.
What are forest, grassland, aquatic, desert, and tundra?
Directions, latitude, and longitude work together to form this, and it can describe the location of any point on Earth's surface.
What is a global grid?
LIGHTNING ROUND:
These pockets of water act like rivers and are important due to moving warm water into cold regions and vice versa
What are ocean currents?
What is a lack of rain and building a city?