Basics
Earth
Climates
People and Environment
Culture
100

What are the intermediate directions?

north west, north east, south west, south east

100

What is a equinox?

A point where everywhere on Earth, days an nights are equally in length.

100

The condition of the air and sky at a certain time.

Weather.

100

What are Fossil Fuels?

Nonrenewable resources.


100

What is a culture?

The beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.

200

In order to study Earth, geographers need to....

Measure it and locate points on its surface.

200

What is the Mantle?

A thick, rocky layer around the core.

200

What is a tropical cyclone?

An intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over oceans in the tropics.

200

What are push factors?

Reasons that push people to leave their home country.

200

What is a society?

A group of people with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs.

300

Special-Purpose maps show...

The location or distribution of specific human or physical features.

300

When is the Fall Equinox?

September 23rd.
300

Where are the tropics?

The tropics are the areas between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.

300

The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas is called..

Urbanization.

300

What is Religion?

A system of worship and belief about the nature of a God or Gods.

400

Place refers to the mix of...

Human and nonhuman features at a given location.

400

Plate tectonics include...

Continents or parts of continents, along with parts of the ocean floor.

400

A group of plants and animals that depend on one another and their environment for survival.

An ecosystem.

400

What is industrialization?

The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing.

400

What is a social structure?

A pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society.
500
Showing Earth on the flat surface of a map always brings some...

Distortion

500

When .... erupts from a volcano, it is called...?

When Magma erupts from a volcano, it is called lava.
500

In July, the seasons are..

Reversed.

500

What is Biodiversity?

The number of types of living things in a region or ecosystem.

500

What is the standard of living?

The level of comfort enjoyed by a person or a society.

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