I study the earth's land, water, plants, and animals.
What is a geographer?
100
This how long it takes the planet to travel around the sun.
What is 365.25 or 365 1/4 days?
100
This is the center of our planet.
What is the inner and outer core?
100
These are the earth's largest bodies of water?
What are oceans?
100
This is the layer of the earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
200
These are two tools that a geographer uses.
What is GPS, GIS, or Sonar?
200
This term is used to describe the tilt of the earth.
What is an axis?
200
This is the thickest layer of our planet.
What is the mantle?
200
These form at the bottom of a mountain due to the erosion of the mountain?
What is a foothill?
200
A __________ plate movement is when the plates are colliding against each other. This can form mountains.
What is convergent?
300
I dig in the dirt searching for clues to the past.
What is an archaeologist?
300
The earth makes on ____________ around the sun in a year.
What is a revolution?
300
Plate tectonics is a theory that states that
What is the crust is not an unbroken shell but consists of plates, or huge slabs of rock, that move?
300
These are similar to channels but much narrower or not as wide.
What is a strait?
400
This is an object that comes out of the ground and tells us about the past.
What is a fossil or artifact?
400
This is a way that the atmosphere helps to support life on earth.
What is retaining heat from the sun, deflecting harmful rays from the sun, and keeping oxygen in the air?
400
This plate movement can cause earthquakes and Tsunami.
What is transform plate movement?
400
This is a deposit of soil and sand at the mouth of rivers.
What is a delta?
400
The theory that states that the continents are constantly moving.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
500
These are things that geographers look at.
What are local issues (list one), or major issues (list one)?
500
This occurs in Summer and is when the hemisphere you are in is tilted toward the sun.
What is the Summer Solstice?
500
These are the three forms of weathering.
What is wind, water, and glaciers?
500
This is why someone may move to an area?
What is resources, climate, or useful items?
500
A theory that there is a trench in the ocean where two plates are pulling away from each other. At this trench, magma is released as the crust is broken up.