Vocabulary 1
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
The Grand Canyon was formed by this process.
What is weathering?
How do rivers change the land?
by carrying sediment downstream over time.
One type of geographer.
What is a physical geographer?
The study of landforms, water and climate.
What is geography?
These lines run north and south of the equator on a map.
What is latitude?
Why were many new settlements built near rivers?
A type of geographer.
What is a human geographer?
A crack in Earth's crust caused by shifting tectonic plates.
What is a fault?
People and animals do this when the climate changes and they need to find food.
What is migrate?
This is a major river in the United States.
What is the Colorado?
This process shapes the Earth slowly
What is the wind?
An 9.2 earthquake is an example of one with great _________________.
What is magnitude?
Earthquakes occur along a ______________ line.
What is a fault?
The scale used to measure earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This process changes Earth quickly?
What is an earthquake?
The Grand Canyon was formed by 2 processes- name one.
What is erosion?
Water is the number 1 cause of most of _____________ on Earth.
What is erosion?
A major river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi?
These processes change the earth quickly.
What is a volcano?