The term means the study of people and places on Earth.
What is geography?
100
These are the two hemispheres that the equator divides the Earth into?
What are the northern and southern hemispheres?
100
This is the main difference between a map and a globe.
What is one is flat versus spherical or 2D versus 3D?
100
Natural resources can be sorted into these two categories.
What is renewable and nonrenewable resources?
100
These are three examples of fossil fuels.
What are coal, natural gas, and oil?
200
A valley (low point) filled with water and formed from glaciers is called a _____________.
What is a lake?
200
Scientists refer to one half of the Earth as this word.
What is a hemisphere?
200
If I traveled from the southern end of the Mississippi River straight across to the Florida coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, I would travel this direction.
What is East or South East?
200
These are 2 examples of non-renewable resources.
What are copper, iron, natural gas, oil, sunlight...?
200
These mountains in the eastern United States were formed by tectonic plates pushing together millions of years ago causing rocks within the Earth's crust to break and move.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
When wind, water, or ice wears away the Earth it is called _____________.
What is erosion?
300
You can use the scale on a map to determine this information.
What is the distance between two places?
300
These are the three forces of erosion.
What is wind, water, and ice (glaciers)?
300
These are just three of the ways that we can help protect our natural resources.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle, turn off the lights, fix dripping faucets, plant trees...?
300
Briefly describe how glaciers cause erosion.
What is glaciers push soil and rock as they move? They flatten some areas and leave piles of Earth in others. This process shapes hills, valleys, and plains.
400
An area where most land features are the same is known as a ____________.
What is region?
400
Cardinal and intermediate directions can be found on this tool.
What is a compass rose?
400
For these reasons, geographers think people often settled near water, like the Mississippi River.
What is they used the water for drinking, watering crops, fishing, and transportation?
400
If paper is a renewable resource, we can do this to replace what we use.
What is plant more trees.?
400
This is how tectonic plates caused mountains to form millions of years ago.
What is tectonic plates pushed together causing rocks within the Earth's crust to break and move?
500
What vocabulary word means all the surroundings and conditions that affect living things?
What is environment?
500
This is known as the imaginary line that divides the Earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
500
This is the reason why people study geography.
What is to study and learn more information about the people and places on Earth?
500
Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable resources.
What is nonrenewable resources are things that nature cannot replace after they are used. Renewable resources are things that the environment can replace after we use them.
500
This is how geographers answer the question "Why is it here?"
What is they look for clues about the forces that created mountains, rivers, and other features? They also search for information that explains why people settled in a specific place.