Chapter 1: Looking at the Earth
This theme of Geography covers the idea of exact position?
What is Location?
This hypothesis was created by German Scientist, Alfred Wegener about the movement of the Earth's plates
What is Continental Drift?
This is the cause of the seasons.
What is the Earth's Tilt?
This form of cultural change comes from creating something new to meet a need.
What is Innovation?
This tool on a map helps establishes distance based on inches or centimeter.
What is scale?
This theme of Geography focus on the idea of people dealing with the world around them?
What is Human-Environment interaction?
This process helps keep the water following throughout the world.
What is the Hydrologic cycle?
This a natural climate change that occurs about every two to seven years.
What is El Nino?
This Religion is the oldest religion in all of History.
What is Hinduism?
This scale helps determine the relative strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
This tool on maps help people understand different symbols and what they represent.
What is a legend?
This Landform is a wide, flat-topped mountain with steep sides, larger than a butte.
What is a Mesa?
This climate region is described as Dry during the Summer and Wet during the Winter.
What is Mediterranean climate?
This rate is the result of combine the birth rate and the death rate.
What is the Rate of Natural Increase?
This effect is caused by gases released from burning coal and oil.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This 3D representation helps give people an idea of how the planet moves in space.
What is a globe?
This type of boundary is often found on the seafloor, creating new rocks as the old are pushed away.
What is divergent boundary?
This climate region usually has permafrost, where the soil is constantly frozen.
What is Tundra?
This term refers to a country having no natural access to the sea or ocean.
What is landlocked?
This form of Culture change takes place when a society adopts an innovation.
What is Acculturation?
This System helps combining information around the world to display a variety of different maps.
What is the Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
This occurs when weathered material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is Erosion?
What are Deciduous Trees?
This consists of the nation's basic support structures in order to keep the economy going.
What is Infrastructure?
This is a group of people with a common culture and have a strong sense of identity and unity.
What is a Nation?