Vocabulary
Physical Geography
A Living Planet
Climate and Vegetation
Human Geography
100
State
What is an independent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control of its internal and external affairs?
100
Map projection
What is a way of drawing of the earth's surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on flat paper?
100
Tectonic plate
What is enormous moving pieces of the earth's surface?
100
Weather
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time?
100
Urbanization
What is the dramatic rise in the number of cities and the changes in lifestyle that result
200
Cartographer
What is a mapmaker?
200
Five themes of geography
What are location, region, movement, place, and human-environment interaction?
200
Earthquake
What is as the plates grind or slip past each other at a fault, the earth shakes or trembles?
200
Climate
What is the term for weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time?
200
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
What is the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time?
300
Volcano
What is an opening in the earth, usually raised, through which gases and lava escape from the earth's surface?
300
Qualitative map
What is a thematic map?
300
Erosion
What is weather material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice or gravity?
300
Tropical and dry
What are two basic climate regions?
300
Population density versus population distribution
What is population density determines how heavily populated an area is while population distribution shows how people choose places to settle?
400
Glacier
What is a large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or over land?
400
Purpose of a map
What are easily portable, can be drawn to any scale needed, guides people, graphic representation of selected parts of earth's surface?
400
Topography
What is the combination of the surface shape and composition of the landforms and their distribution in a region?
400
Forestland definition
What is forest regions are categorized by the types of trees they support - broadleaf and needleleaf?
400
Characteristics of city locations
What are allow transportation, easy access to natural resources, goods are shifted from one form of transportation to another, specialize in certain economic activities, and people are attracted by cultural, educational, or military activities?
500
Mountain
What is natural elevation of the earth's surface with steep sides and greater height than a hill?
500
Cartograms and flow-line maps
What are types of thematic maps?
500
Difference between weathering and erosion
What is weathering affects rocks, while erosion can alter riverbeds and riverbanks as well as rock?
500
Remaining basic types of climate regions
What are mid-latitude, high latitude, and highland?
500
The need for infrastructure
What is infrastructure provides basic support systems such as transportation, communication, power, water, sanitation, and education which keep an economy going and a country running?
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