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100
___________ is the study of the Earth and its people.
What is Geography
100
The type of geographer that studies land, water, plant life, and other features are called?
What is a Physical Geographers.
100
Lines of Latitude run?
What is East and West.
100
Earthquakes are most likely to happen along major _______?
What are fault lines.
100
Describe plate tectonics.
How continents were formed and why they move.
200
What are the 5 categories of MR.HELP?
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions
200
This type of geographer focuses on people and their activities.
What is a Human Geographer.
200
22.5* N and S Latitude are the Earths two?
What is Tropics.
200
What are the three major parts of the water cycle?
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
200
_____________ are areas that have similar patterns of temperature and precipitation.
What is a climate zone.
300
____________ is the exact spot on the Earth where a geographic feature is found.
What is absolute location.
300
In chronological order, what are the terms for 10, 100, and 1000 years?
What is decade, century, and millennium.
300
Lines of Longitude run?
What is North and South.
300
___________ refers to the changes in temperature, wind direction and speed, and air moisture that take pace over a short period of time.
What is weather.
300
What are the 3 layers of the earth?
What are the core, mantle, and crust.
400
What describes how people affect their natural surroundings?
What is human-environment interaction
400
What does GIS stand for?
What is a computer hardware system that gather, store, and analyze geographic information and then display it on a screen.
400
Orbit refers to?
What is each planets path around the sun.
400
Chemicals in the air pollution can combine with precipitation to form ___________?
What is acid rain.
400
The earth circles the sun every ________ days.
What is 365 1/4 days.
500
What refers to areas of the Earth's surface that have several common characteristics?
What is regions.
500
What is the difference between place and region?
Place describes physical characteristics such as landforms, climate, and animal life. Regions are places united by one or more characteristic.
500
The _______________ is the day with the most hours of sunlight.
What is the summer solstice.
500
Weather patterns over a long period of time are called _____________?
What is climate.
500
Temperatures are always cool or cold near the North and South poles because...
the poles receive only slanted rays from the sun.
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