Physical Geography
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What is the term for landforms like mountains, valleys, and plains?
What is topography?
This term means the way of life for a group of people.
What is culture?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
The solid outer layer of the Earth is called the what?
What is the crust?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
This type of climate is hot and wet all year, often found near the equator.
What is tropical rainforest climate?
Language, religion, and customs are all examples of what?
What are cultural traits?
This canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
These large pieces of Earth’s crust move and cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
People who leave their country due to war or danger are called what?
What are refugees?
The longest mountain range in the world, located in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
What do we call a society made up of many different cultures?
What is a multicultural society?
The Mississippi River flows into which body of water?
What is the Gulf of America (Formerly the Gulf of Mexico)?
The place where two tectonic plates meet and cause mountain formation or earthquakes.
What is a fault line?
These are reasons people leave a place, such as lack of jobs.
What are push factors?
This natural boundary separates Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This process spreads culture across regions.
What is cultural diffusion?
The Amazon River is located in which country?
What is Brazil?
This is the process by which rocks are broken down by wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering or erosion?
What do we call the permanent move from one country to another?
What is immigration?
A desert has what kind of climate?
What is an Arid Climate?
A celebration or event that reflects a group's cultural identity.
What is a cultural tradition or festival?
This canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean through the Hudson River, helping New York become a major trade city.
What is the Erie Canal?
This is the name for molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface. When it erupts and reaches the surface, it’s called something else.
What is magma? (On the surface, it’s called lava.)
Movement within the same country, often from rural to urban areas.
What is internal migration?