Physical Features
Part One
Part One
Earth's physical features are formed by these two processes.
What are the movement of the tectonic plates and erosion caused by wind and water?
This is the process of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff. It causes erosion, which is one of the processes responsible for forming the Earth's physical features.
What is the water cycle?
This is something that encourages people to leave a place behind.
What is a push factor?
This tells you where someplace can be found. It can be given in either absolute or relative terms.
What is location?
This imaginary line is located at 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
This occurs when the stress on tectonic plates becomes strong enough to overcome the friction that is holding the plates in place, causing them to shift.
What is an earthquake?
This is a broad area of land that is relatively flat.
What is a plain?
This is something that encourages people to move to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
This theme involves grouping areas together according to unifying characteristics.
What is region?
This imaginary line marks 0° longitude and runs through Greenwich Observatory in London, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is a narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
These are great sheets of ice that are formed in the polar zones and at very high altitudes as frozen precipitation accumulates over time, becoming heavier and heavier.
What are glaciers?
This occurs when people come to a new place with the intention of staying there.
What is immigration?
This theme studies how the environment impacts people, and how people impact the environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
This term refers to the pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This is a narrow strip of land that separates two bodies of water and connects two larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
This is a group of islands, sometimes called an island chain.
What is an archipelago?
This occurs when people leave a place, such as their homeland, behind, with no intention of returning.
What is emigration?
This theme describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.
What is place?
This is defined as any natural characteristic of Earth’s surface, such as landforms and bodies of water.
What is a physical feature?
This is a deep gorge, or ravine, that is found between two cliffs, or encasements.
What is a canyon?
This is a region where a river empties its contents, usually into a larger body of water, depositing loose soil and sediment.
What is a delta?
This is the process of spreading cultural features from one place to another by migration, communication, and trade.
What is cultural diffusion?
This theme examines how and why people, goods, and ideas are transferred from one place to another.
What is movement?
This term means dry or lacking rainfall; also a climate or climate zone that is hot and dry all year with very little rain.
What is arid?