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5 Themes
Earth's Surface
Weather
Maps
Miscellaneous
100
This is the name of half of the Earth when dividing by the Equator or Prime Meridian
What is a hemisphere
100
This is the thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100
Water falling to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail is this
What is precipitation
100
These are the cardinal directions
What are north, east, south, and west
100
The reason we have seasons can be attributed to this
What is tilt of the Earth on its axis
200
HEI is the abbreviation for this theme of geography
What is human environment interaction
200
Put these in order from the outside to the inside: mantle, core, crust
What is crust, mantle, core
200
Weather can best be described as
What is the condition of the air and sky at a specific time
200
Maps have a grid system to find absolute location. These are the names of the lines that run N/S and E/W
What is latitude and longitude
200
When the sun is hitting the Equator at a 90 degree angle we call that time this
What is an Equinox
300
These are the two different types of location that we use to describe a places location
What is absolute and relative location
300
These are the two types of weathering
What is physical and chemical weathering
300
Areas with little seasonal change and colder temperatures would most likely be in this latitude zone
What is high latitude zone
300
The amount of space on a map that represents a certain amount of space on the Earth can be shown with this
What is a scale bar
300
We can divide natural resources into these two sub categories
What are renewable and nonrenewable resources
400
The way people, goods, and ideas spread is this theme of geography
What is movement
400
Water slowly wearing away land from a cliff's edge is an example of this
What is erosion
400
The movement of Earth's surface water into the atmosphere and back is called this
What is the water cycle
400
This type of map will show natural features
What is a physical map
400
Elevation shows us this
What is a places height above sea level
500
Name the 5 themes of geography
What are location, place, region, movement, and human environment interaction
500
These are the names of the three ways that plate boundaries can interact with each other
What is convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries
500
What are the names of the 3 latitude zones and describe the weather in each zone
low (tropics) - warm year round middle (temperate) - seasonal changes w/ warm summer and cold winter High (polar) - cold year round
500
This is the main disadvantage that we discussed in class of using a map instead of a globe
What is shapes and sizes are distorted
500
When we have solstices the sun is hitting these imaginary lines at a 90 degree angle
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn