The study of the distribution and interaction of
physical and human features on the earth.
What is Geography?
100
North, South, East, West
What are Cardinal Directions?
100
A fracture in the earth’s crust.
What are fault lines?
100
A way to measure information collected by
seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
100
A device that measures the
size of the waves created by an earthquake.
What is a Seismograph?
200
A fan-like land form made of deposited sediment, left
by a river that slows as it enters the ocean.
What is a Delta?
200
The use of latitude and longitude to locate a specific place on earth.
What is Absolute Location?
200
Made up of the Lithosphere, Atmosphere, and Hydrosphere.
What is the Biosphere?
200
The difference in elevation of a landform from the lowest
point to the highest point.
What is relief?
200
The molten rock material formed when solid rock in
the earth’s mantle or crust melts.
What is magma?
300
An enormous moving shelf that forms the earth's crust.
What are Tectonic Plates?
300
Describes a place in relation to other
places around it.
What is Relative Location?
300
Physical (mechanical) and chemical processes that change
the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s surface,
occurring slowly over many years
What is Weathering?
300
A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
What is a valley?
300
A rock layer about 1,800 miles thick that is between
the earth’s crust and the earth’s core
What is the mantle?
400
The combined characteristics of landforms and
their distribution in a region.
What is Topography?
400
A type of map that indicates the location of landforms like deserts, mountains and plains.
What is a Physical Map?
400
An underground layer of rock that stores water.
What is an Aquifer?
400
The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific
Rim.Very geologically active.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
The hypothesis that all continents were
once joined into a super-continent that split apart over
millions of years.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
500
Organic material in soil
What is Humus?
500
Each half of the globe
What is Hemisphere?
500
The point on the earth’s surface that corresponds to
the location in the earth where an earthquake begins.
What is the Epicenter?
500
Found at the edge of the lithospheric plates.
What are Plate Boundaries?
500
A natural event, formed when magma, gases, and
water from the lower part of the crust or mantle collect in
underground chambers and eventually erupt and pour out
of cracks in the earth’s surface.