What are the intermediate directions?
north west, north east, south west, south east
What is a equinox?
A point where everywhere on Earth, days an nights are equally in length.
The condition of the air and sky at a certain time.
Weather.
What are Fossil Fuels?
Nonrenewable resources.
What is a culture?
The beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.
In order to study Earth, geographers need to....
Measure it and locate points on its surface.
What is the Mantle?
A thick, rocky layer around the core.
What is a tropical cyclone?
An intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over oceans in the tropics.
What are push factors?
Reasons that push people to leave their home country.
What is a society?
A group of people with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs.
Special-Purpose maps show...
The location or distribution of specific human or physical features.
When is the Fall Equinox?
Where are the tropics?
The tropics are the areas between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas is called..
Urbanization.
What is Religion?
A system of worship and belief about the nature of a God or Gods.
Place refers to the mix of...
Human and nonhuman features at a given location.
Plate tectonics include...
Continents or parts of continents, along with parts of the ocean floor.
A group of plants and animals that depend on one another and their environment for survival.
An ecosystem.
What is industrialization?
The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing.
What is a social structure?
Distortion
When .... erupts from a volcano, it is called...?
In July, the seasons are..
Reversed.
What is Biodiversity?
The number of types of living things in a region or ecosystem.
What is the standard of living?
The level of comfort enjoyed by a person or a society.