Vocab I
Study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on Earth.
What is geography?
Heavy snowstorm with winds of more than 32 miles per hour.
What is a blizzard?
Water droplets falling in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Determined by measuring weather patterns of a particular area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The earth's metallic center.
What is the core?
The imaginary line that divides the north and south halves of the earth.
What is the equator?
Map used in sea/ocean travel.
What is a navigational chart?
A giant wave in the ocean caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The day on which the sun is at its farthest north or farthest south latitude soil.
What is solstice?
Violent movement of the earth caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
To draw and create maps.
What is cartography?
Basic type of map showing boundaries, major cities.
What is a general reference map?
A powerful funnel-shaped column of spiraling air.
What is a volcano?
Refers to difference in elevation between one point and another.
What is relief?
Physical or chemical processes that change the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s surface.
What is weathering?
Maps show patterns in population, like income level or population density.
What are thematic maps?
Twice a year, this happens, day and night are the same length.
What is an equinox?
Storms that form over warm, tropical ocean.
What is a hurricane?
The exact place where a geographic feature is found.
What is absolute location?
An opening in the earth’s crust where magma and gases escape.
What is a volcano?
The combination of the characteristics of landforms and their distribution in a region.
What is topography?
The five themes of geography.
What are...?
A long period without rain or with very minimal rainfall.
What is drought?
Wind-blown silt and clay sediment that produces very fertile soil.
What is loess?
The earth’s surface from the edge of a continent to the edge of the deep part of the ocean.
What is a continental shelf?