Physical Characteristics
What are the layers of the Earth?
This affirms that large moving slabs of rock slide slowly over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics?
These are the three agents of erosion.
What is moving water, glaciers, and wind.
Longitude is measured in degrees east or west of this imaginary line.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Half of the globe
What is a hemisphere?
The layer of air, water, and other substances above the surface of the earth
What is the atmosphere?
Circular movement caused when a material is heated, expands and rises, then cools and falls.
What is convection?
The most common form of mechanical weathering
What is frost wedging? (water freezing in a crack in a rock)
What are the 5 themes of Geography
Region that is defined by people’s feelings and attitudes.
What is a perceptual region?
Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains
What are the four major types of landforms on the earths surface?
Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading
What are the two theories that support the theory of Plate Tectonics?
This example of chemical weathering forms when polluted air and water vapor combines and falls back to earth.
What is acid rain?
Similar climates, vegetation, or landforms can be used to divide the earth into this.
What are formal regions?
Chicago’s location written as 42’N,88’W.
What is absolute location?
two parts: one is made of solid rock, the other is made from molten lava
What is the inner core and outer core?
Internal force that helps create landforms
What is Volcanism?
This created the largest canyons and the deepest valleys on earth. (Specific answer)
What is moving water?
A geographer would most likely use this to provide detailed information about a location.
What is GPS?
Consists of water in oceans, lakes, rivers, and even under the ground.
What is the hydrosphere?
Internal forces
What creates the landforms on the earth‘s surface?
What is the evidence that suggests there was once a single supercontinent?
Geographers can conclude this by observing moraines.
What is the evidence that a glacier once covered the area?
The building of dams and canals to irrigate desert regions is an example of this.
What is human-environment interaction?
Landforms are commonly classified according to the difference in elevation also known as this.
What is relief?