Basics
This word, which is the name of the unit, is the study of where and how people live AND the natural features of the Earth
What is Geography
Continents, oceans, rivers, plateaus, mountains, plains, valleys, deserts, prairies and hills are all examples of these
What are landforms
Sea levels rising, mountains getting smaller and continents drifting apart are all examples of _________ geography changing
What is physical geography
This word describes the usual weather pattern of an area
What is climate
The total number of people describes this word
What is a population
This is what we call a machine that orbits around a planet gathering information and taking pictures
What is a satellite
This type of geography is the study of where and how people live
What is human geography
When people change the way they live, like wearing warm weather when it gets cold, or speaking a different language when in a new country, it is an example of this
What is an adaptation
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed 280 million years ago to 230 millions years ago that was one giant piece of land
What is Pangea
True or False: The climate of the equator is cold and snowy
What is false. The climate of the equator is always hot and often rainy
Food, water, plants, air, animals, minerals and metals are all examples of these
What are resources
This is the type of landform that describes the Sahara
What is a desert
This word describes the natural features of the Earth
What is physical geography
This word describes the traits, or characteristics, that people who live together have in common
What is culture
True or False: Latitude lines go east to west
What is True. Latitude lines go in circles around the globe from east to west as horizontal lines
True or False: The climate on a mountain gets warmer as you go higher up
Air pollution affects this part of the environment
What is the atmosphere, which is made up of gases
This is the continent on which the Amazon River is found
What is South America
This word describes the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth where temperatures are very warm
What is the equator
This is NOT an example of culture:
The food you eat
The music you listen to
The language you speak
A prairie
What is a prairie. A prairie is a landform
True or False: Longitude lines go north to south
What is True. Longitudinal lines go north to south as vertical lines
This word describes and area of land with a government and borders
What is a country
This is what is happening to the temperature on Earth because of climate change
What is it is going up
The eruption of this is what caused the island of Tahiti to form
What is a volcano
This is the number of continents on planet Earth
What is 7
This is the type of landform that is made mostly of sand, has few plants and gets very little rain
What is a desert
This line of latitude goes through the middle of the Earth and splits it into the northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator
This is the name of the country that we live in
What is the United States
This is the name of the gas that causes climate change
What is carbon dioxide
True or False: The Amazon Rainforest, The Sahara Desert and Tahiti all have the same climate
What is false. These are three different landforms and therefore they have different climates
This is the name of the continent that we live on
What is North America
This landform is a large area of flat land that does not go up or down and has very few trees. In the United States, they are found in the middle of the country
What are plains. The Great plains are states in the middle of the country
True or False: Pangea contained on it all the land that exists today
True. Pangea was made of all the land we have. It eventually split apart and gave us the 7 continents of today
True or False: A country's borders can change if a war happens and a country loses land to another country
What is True. The borders of a country are manmade. They can change over time due to events like wars
This is what we burn that causes climate change
What are fossil fuels: coal, oil and gasoline
This is the continent on which the Sahara Desert is found
What is Africa