Vocabulary
Physical Geography
Human Geography
Human Environment Interaction
Leftovers
100
This field of geography studies natural forces such as climate, plate tectonics, and landforms.
What is Physical Geography?
100
This happens twice a year, when the sun is directly over the equator.
What is the equinox?
100
This is a group of people who share the same language, religion, and beliefs.
What is a culture?
100
We depend on these - timber, oil, coal, iron - for our industries and trade.
What are Natural Resources?
100
North America, the area where French is the primary language, and the Tropical climate zone are examples of this type of region.
What is a Formal Region?
200
This is the study of how people Adapt to, Modify, or Depend on their natural surroundings.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
200
This is either the shortest or the longest day of the year.
What is the solstice?
200
An assessment using indicators such as access to health care, literacy rate, infant mortality, GNP per capita, employment rates, and so forth to determine how the people of nation live.
What is Standard of Living?
200
In dry climates people modify the environment so they can grow crops by using this.
What is irrigation?
200
In this type of economic system, poor farmers and their children grow barely enough food to feed their families, with no modern technology.
What is subsistence agriculture?
300
These are things like earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, and hurricanes.
What are Natural Hazards?
300
The climates in this latitudinal zone are very cold.
What are high latitude climates?
300
Population density is greater along the coasts because of access to this.What is water transportation for trade?
300
When rivers flood, people adapt by building these.
What are dams or levees?
300
When this treaty was ratified, many companies moved their factories to Mexico, so they could assemble products there for importation into the US with no tariff.
What is NAFTA?
400
This is the increase in the standard of living of a nation's population from a simple, low-income economy to a modern, high-income economy.
Sometimes called Industrialization or Westernization.
What is Economic Development?
400
This climate type receives less than 10 inches of precipitation per year.
What is a desert?
400
This is the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
400
Poor countries are at the mercy of the environment because they don't have a high level of this.
What is technology?
400
This country encourages immigration, and passed a law protecting cultural diversity.
What is Canada?
500
This is the study of the spatial (across a space) and temporal (change over time) distribution of phenomena, processes and features as well as the interaction of humans and their environment
What is Geography?
500
This occurs when exposed soil or rock is broken down by wind, ice, or water.
What is erosion?
500
When many people migrate from rural ro urban areas, and need education, clean water, and roads, governments in poor countries have a hard time keeping this up to date.
What is infrastructure?
500
People living along faults, such as the ones in California, must adapt to this natural hazard.
What are earthquakes?
500
This is the area of the earth where all livings things are found.
What is the Biosphere?