Vocabulary
5 themes of geography
Thinking Like a geographer
The earth in space
Using Geography Skills
100
Axis
What is imaginary line from north to the south pole
100
Place
What is climate and beaches in Hawaii encourage tourism
100
Physical geographer
What is the name of a person who examines the features of a place like landforms, plants, animals, and weather
100
Summer solstice
What is day with most hours of sunlight
100
The earth is tilted on its axis
What is the reason the seasons change as earth travels around the sun
200
Tropics
What is area between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
200
Human environmental interaction
What is farm fertilizers pollute rivers
200
Four Long periods as defined by western society
What is prehistory, ancient history, Middle Ages, and modern history
200
Orbit
What is path each planet takes around the sun
200
Tilted toward the sun
What is the tilt of the North Pole during the summer solstice
300
Region
What is North Africa and Southwest Asia have similar desert landscapes and climates
300
Information provided by satellites
What is detailed images and photographs, measure temperatures and pollution, and record exact locations on Earth
300
Jupiter
What is the planet that is an outer planet between Jupiter and Mars
300
Tropic of capricorn
What is the location of the sun's rays on or about December 22
400
Global Positioning System
What is group of satellites that use radio signals to determine the exact location of places on earth
400
Movement
What is when you leave one area for another because of a better job offer
400
5 themes of geography
What is place, location, human environmental interaction, movement, and region
400
Make up of our solar system
What is earth and seven other major planets and thousands of smaller bodies
400
Elliptical
What is the shape of the planets'orbit around the sun
500
Equinox
What is either of the days in spring or fall when the noon sun is overhead at the equator and day and night are of equal length in the north and south hemispheres
500
Human Environmental Interaction
What is a rare plant is endangered by urban sprawl
500
Type of geography that includes religions and languages
What is human geography
500
How seasons of the mid latitudes are affected by air masses from the tropics and the north and south poles
What is warm air masses from the tropics and cold from north and south poles
500
Reason the seasons change
What is the earth is tilted on its axis