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What is a globe?
A ruler-like symbol used to measure distance on a map.
What is a scale?
The imaginary line that separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
This is the name for the vertical lines on a map.
What is longitude?
This is the name for the horizontal lines on a map.
What is latitude?
Hurricanes spiral this direction in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is counter-clockwise?
This type of destruction is caused by wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
These landforms are created gradually over a long period of time as plates collide, forcing land upwards.
What are mountains?
This is a region around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Hydroelectricity, solar power, and wind power are all examples of this type of energy.
What is renewable energy?
The "N" in ESPN stands for this word.
eNvironmental
An area of the world that has definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
What is a region?
Tiny rock particles are called this.
What is sediment?
The lower part of the earth’s crust.
What is the mantle?
The most dramatic volcanic action in which hot lava, gases, ash, dust, and rocks explode out of vents in the earth's crust.
What is an eruption?
Processes that break rock into smaller pieces. (two words)
What is mechanical weathering?
The boundary between two tectonic plates.
What is a fault?
The loose mixture of weathered rock, organic matter, air, and water that supports plant growth
What is soil?
The grinding away of rock by transported particles.
What is abrasion?
Focuses on movement of people, products, and ideas and the impact of that movement on regions of contact.
What is diffusion? (or spatial exchange)
The best tool to use to measure distance on a map for a route that does not go in a straight line.
What is string?
What is the Prime Meridian?
Imaginary line that separates the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere on the Pacific Ocean side of the globe?
What is the international date line?
This area along a fault would be most susceptible to a major earthquake.
What is a "locked" area?
Any concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain. (two words)
What is biological magnification?