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Vocab, baby
Theming and Scheming
What went wrong Wednesday
Don't be a tool
Pot of Gold
100
Geographers use this perspective to study the world
What is spatial?
100
The eastern seaboard airports is an example of this
What is a functional region?
100
The site of the world's worst nuclear accident
What is Chernobyl?
100
This type of map projection is used for a Mercator map.
What is cylindrical?
100
This renewable energy source supplies the most energy to the U.S.
What is hydroelectric?
200
An awareness and understanding of the environment around us
What is perception?
200
This theme includes the physical and human characteristics
What is place?
200
The town where buried toxic waste from a chemical plant leaked into the soil and water supply
What is Love Canal?
200
The World Time Zone map is divided into this many time zones.
What is 24?
200
Lines of latitude measure distance north and south of this
What is the equator?
300
The branch of geography that focuses on landforms, water features and plants
What is physical geography?
300
The theme of movement includes the movement of these three things
What are people, goods and ideas?
300
The poisoning from Minimata Bay was a direct results of this chemical
What is mercury?
300
Degrees are subdivided into these
What are minutes?
300
The smallest ocean
What is the Arctic Ocean?
400
The scenery of a place, including its physical, human and cultural features
What is landscape?
400
This resource has been linked to Black Lung
What is coal?
400
After Love Canal, and motivated by Earth Day, this president signed the Clean Air Act and created the EPA
Who is President Nixon?
400
This type of map projection is most accurate for land masses close to the equator
What is cylindrical?
400
Creation of the time zones in the U.S. was prompted by this
What is railroad schedules?
500
Artificial channels for transporting water
What are aqueducts?
500
Three effects of the Hoover Dam
What is...diverted water of Colorado River, provide energy for much of southwest U.S., water source for Las Vegas, impact fish species
500
State where you would find Yucca Mountain
What is Nevada?
500
The degree of latitude at the North Pole
What is 90 degrees North?
500
Earth is divided into the Eastern and Western hemispheres by the prime meridian and the
What is the International Date Line or 180 degree meridian?