5 Themes of Geography
Location
Climate Zones
Earth and Sun Relationships
Human Geography
100
Where a place is located in relation to other places
What is Relative Location
100
Half of a sphere or globe
What is Hemisphere
100
Hot to very hot summers and mild winters, VERY little percepitation.
What is a Desert (arid)
100
One ROTATION of the Earth takes how long?
What is 24 hours
100
The knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group
What is Culture
200
The exact position of a place on the earth's surface.
What is Absolute Location
200
Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator
What is Latitude
200
Hot and Muggy (humid) year round, frequent showers/thunderstorms, temperature says around 80 degrees year long.
What is a Rainforest (Tropical Wet)
200
One REVOLUTION of the Earth takes how long?
What is 365 1/4
200
Helps to build cultural identity by building a group identity and unity among people
What is Language
300
One of the 5 themes described by Climate/Landforms/ and Animal Life
What is Place
300
All of the land and water between the Equator and the North Pole
What is the Northern Hemisphere
300
Dry with breif chilly summer and bitterly cold winters. ALWAYS has permafrost. Only short grasses and mosses live here.
What is a Tundra.
300
Sun rays are directly on the Equator during the______
What is Equinox
300
Belief in ONE god
What is Monotheistic
400
One of the five themes that describes the relationship between people and their environment
What is Human/Enviroment Interaction
400
Imaginary lines that run from pole to pole (Hint: Also called meridians)
What is Longitude
400
Warm to hot summers and short cool winters. Has mixed forests. (Hint Atlanta is in this climate zone)
What is Humid subtropical.
400
Two times a year when the sun's rays sine directly overhead at noon at the furthest points north or south and mark the beginning of summer and winter
What is Solstice
400
Belief in MANY gods
What is Polytheistic
500
Areas divided according to a commonality
What is Region
500
0 degrees longitude
What is Prime Meridian
500
Typically surround desert areas, low percipitation but not as low as a desert.
What is a Steppe (Semiarid)
500
The Earth's atmoshpere relfects some of the sun's radiation back into space and traps enough radiation to warm the Earth... This is called...
What is The Greenhouse Effect
500
Belief in divine forces in nature
What is Animistic
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