Time
What time zone do we live in?
What is Eastern time?
a locations distance north or south of the equator, an imaginary line that runs east to west
What is latitude?
when someone moves out of the area in which they live because of some kind of problem or hardship
What is a push factor?
Environmental adaptation is
What is when someone changes the environment to meet their own needs in order to survive?
A crack in Earth's crust caused by shifting plates
If it is 4:00pm in Eastern time, what time is it in Central time?
What is 3:00pm?
A line of longitude that circles the earth, passing through both North and South poles
What is a meridian?
What is a pull factor?
How is the terraced landscape of Madagascar an example of environmental adaptation
What is because the people there created flat shelf-like terraces for growing crops on the steep mountain slopes?
A mapmaker
What is a cartographer?
It is 6:00pm in Florida, what time is it in California?
What is 3:00pm?
The line of 0 degrees longitude running through Greenwich, England
What is the Prime Meridian?
The Irish Potato Famine is an example of a pull factor or push factor?
What is a push factor?
This street in San Francisco is an example of environmental adaptation because of its sharp turns creating a gentler incline for pedestrians and vehicles
What is Lombard Street?
to change the original shape of something
What is to distort?
Name the 4 time zones of the contiguous United States
What is Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
the imaginary line that divides earth into the North and Southern hemispheres, also 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
Name an example of a pull factor we learned about
What is the California Gold Rush or Transcontinental Railroad?
The people of Las Vegas have changed the environment to meet their needs by using 255 million gallons of water from this body of water
What is the Colorado River reservoir at Lake Mead?
movement of rock particles and soil from one place to another
What is erosion?
There are __________ time zones in the world.
What is 24?
an imaginary line that is about 180 degrees longitude and runs through the Pacific Ocean, east of the line the calendar date is one day earlier than the date west of the line
What is the International Date Line?
Forced Migration is
What is when someone is forced out of the place they live to move somewhere else, Example: Slavery?
Which environmental adaptation did we learn about in Sweden
What is the Swedish Ice Hotel?
Used to measure the size of earthquakes (larger the number, greater the strength)
What is the Richter Scale?