Geography Basics
Cardinal Directions
What are north, south, east, and west?
The Layers of the Earth
What are the inner core, the outer core, the mantle, and the crust?
The condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
One example of a renewable resource and one example of a nonrenewable resource.
Trees, plants, water, sunlight, wind, soil, animals
fossil fuels, minerals, metal ores, coal, natural gas
Intermediate directions
What are northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast?
The area a given space on the map or globe corresponds to in the real world.
What is scale?
What is weathering?
The movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
The loss of forest cover over a region.
What is deforestation?
A process in which water, ice, or wind remove small pieces of rock and move them somewhere else.
What is erosion?
The loss of accuracy in the size or position of objects.
What is distortion?
The difference between rotation and revolution
What is rotation is the spinning of Earth on its axis and revolution is the Earth making a complete trip around the sun?
The three latitude zones
What are the tropics, temperate zones, and polar zones.
The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
What is when the birth rate is higher than the death rate?
Geography's 5 Themes
What are location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?
A process involving huge blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle moving around.
What is plate tectonics?
How the ocean helps to keep temperatures moderate in areas near the ocean.
What is the water takes longer to heat or cool than land so the ocean stays cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter?
1 positive effect and 1 negative effect of population growth.
Produce and consumer more goods and services, improve country's standard of living
More people than resources can support, starvation and disease, higher infant mortality rate, more pollution and deforestation
The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas
What is urbanization?
7 Continents and 5 Oceans
What are:
North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Africa
Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Arctic, Indian
The difference between a solstic and an equinox.
What is a solistic is a point where days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other, while an equinox is when days and nights are nearly equal in length everywhere on Earth?
The three main types of ecosystems
What are forest, grassland, and cold climate ecosystems?
Explain push and pull factors of migration
Push factors are reasons why people want to leave the region that they live in.
Pull factors are reasons why people want to go to a particular place.
Name 5 of the 12 climate types
tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, humid subtropical, mediterranean, semiarid, arid, maritime, continental warm summer
continental cool summer, subarctic, tundra, ice cap