Themes You Can't Really Hum
Layers and Shaky Plates
Have no Sphere!
Watch your Latitude!
Use the Force, Luke.
Surprise!
100
Where is it?
What is location?
100
Plates push into each other directly ---> <-----
What is convergent plate movement?
100
Plants, Animals, Mushrooms, Bacteria, Humans.
What is the Biosphere?
100
Zero degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
100
Canyons, Craters.
What are landforms created by EXTERNAL forces?
100
The study of the earth and the people inhabiting it.
What is Geography?
200
What is it like?
What is Place?
200
Tectonic plates move slowly away from each other, creating underwater ridges and Iceland <---- ---->
What is divergent plate movement?
200
Oxygen, Nitrogen.....
What is the Atmosphere?
200
Zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Mountains, Volcanoes, the San Andreas Fault....
What are landforms created by INTERNAL forces?
200
Another name for lines of longitude.
What are Meridians?
300
MRLIP
What is Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, Place?
300
The type of convergent plate movement where the heavier oceanic plate dives under the continental plate, causing volcanoes.
What is subduction?
300
crust and upper mantle.....Rocks, sand, dirt....
What is the Lithosphere?
300
23.5 degrees South Latitude.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
300
Approximately 70% of the world's volcanoes and 80% of the world's earthquakes occur in this region.
What is the Pacific Rim / Ring of Fire?
300
Another name for lines of latitude.
What are Parallels?
400
What are humans doing to it?
What is Interaction?
(What is Human-Environment Interaction?)
400
What subduction creates on the continental plate during subduction--it causes the continental plate to protrude farther into the ocean.
What is accretion?
400
Clouds, Glaciers, Icebergs, Fog, salt and fresh water....
What is the Hydrosphere?
400
66.5 degrees North Latitude.
What is the Arctic Circle?
400
This external force consists of physical and chemical processes.
What is weathering?
400
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration....
What is the water cycle?
500
How you view an area; stereotypes.
What is Perceptual Region?
500
The part of the Earth where the tectonic plates are....
What is the Lithosphere / upper mantle?
500
This could not exist without the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere......
What is the Biosphere?
500
90 degrees South Latitude
What is the South Pole?
500
The massive structures under the crust that cause continents to move one inch a year.
What are tectonic plates?
500
The tallest point on Earth.
What is Mount Everest? (as measured from sea level)
(The point farthest into outer space, due to the elliptical shape of the Earth, is Mount Chimborazo)
600
An area that has political boundaries and is measurable, such as the United States of America.
What is Formal Region?
600
The metallic liquid outer core and the solid inner core of the Earth is made up of these elements.
What is nickel, iron and magnesium?
600
A special sphere generated by the rotation of the metallic inner core of the Earth. It protects the Biosphere from deadly solar radiation.
What is the Magnetosphere?
600
The Prime Meridian runs through this city in England.
What is Greenwich?
(The Royal Naval Observatory)
600
These are types of things on the surface of the planet, shaped by internal AND external forces, such as mountains, valleys, plateaus, plains, buttes and basins.
What are landforms?
600
An early warning for global warming.
What is the melting of polar icecaps and glaciers?