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World of Geography
Geography Today
Our Nation's Landforms and Water
Land of the Rich
A Land of Many Climates
100
The study of the physical world and the people and things that live there.
What is geography?
100
Melted rock squeezes through the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
100
A feature of the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
Soil, water, sunshine, metal, fuel, and wood are examples.
What are resources?
100
The condition of the layer of air above the Earth.
What is weather?
200
Your surroundings.
What is the environment?
200
The melted rock inside the volcano burst out.
What is erupted?
200
The height of a landform.
What is its elevation?
200
Examples are trees and other things that can be replaced.
What are renewable resources?
200
Measurement of hotness or coldness.
What is temperature?
300
The earth is divided into these.
What is a hemisphere?
300
Landslide.
What is an avalanche?
300
The level of the surface of the world's ocean.
What is sea level?
300
Wind and water can be considered this type.
What are flow resources?
300
Moisture that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
400
When the earth changes slowly, plants and animals do this to continue to live.
What is adapt?
400
A machine or mass that flies around the earth in outer space.
What is a satellite?
400
When rainwater, ice, and other forces wear away soil and rock.
What is erosion?
400
Fossil fuel and minerals are examples of this.
What are nonrenewable resources?
400
The usual weather pattern for an area of the world.
What is climate?
500
Another word for latitude and longitude.
What are parallels and meridians.
500
Lasers, satellites, maps, and books.
What are some geographers' tools?
500
An imaginary line that runs along the Rockies which defines which way rivers run.
What is the Continental Divide?
500
People who want to do this ? will take things and use them again called ?.
What are conserve and recycle?
500
The parts of the water cycle.
What are precipitation, evaporation, and condensation?