External Forces of Nature
The Spheres
Physical Features
Themes of Geography
Vocabulary
100
The removal or transportation of soil or rock through wind, glaciers, and water.
What is Erosion
100
The earths sphere that makes up the air, oxygen, and all gasses
What is The Atmosphere.
100
A body of Salt Water larger than a sea.
What is the ocean?
100
The ideas, goods, and people of one place going to another.
What is movement
100
Subfield of Geography that studies the natural or physical environment
What is Physical Geography
200
Breaking down of rocks and other materials into smaller pieces
What is Weathering.
200
Sphere that makes up the entire earth
What is Lithosphere.
200
Land that rises above the land around it
What are hills
200
Contains areas of Formal, Perceptual, and Functional
What is a region
200
A system of lines of latitude and longitude used to determine the location of places.
What is the Grid System
300
Dropping off or depositing of rock particles in a new location
What is Deposition.
300
Sphere that is made up of about 70% of the earth's surface
What is Hydrosphere.
300
A large stream of water that flows across the land
What are rivers
300
Something with similiar physical and or cultural characteristics
What is a place
300
The art of mapmaking
What is Cartography?
400
The pulling apart of sea plates forming underwater trenches and or underwater ridges
What is Sea Floor Spreading.
400
Sphere that contains all other spheres and everything in it
What is The Biosphere.
400
An area of high mostly flat land
What are plateaus?
400
containing a relative and absolute
What are locations
400
The sub field of geography that focuses on the human aspect of geography
What is Cultural or Human Geography
500
Major cause of building mountains such as the Appalachians by crashing lands plates together
What is Subduction.
500
A mountain belongs to this sphere
What is The Lithosphere.
500
Land that has water on all sides
What is an island?
500
How we depend on, adapt to, and change the environment
What is Human Environmental Interaction
500
The study of physical and human landscape of the Earth and the interaction between the two.
What is Geography
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