Geography Skills
This type of Geography studies Earth's land areas, bodies of water, plant life and other physical features.
What is Physical Geography?
This type of Map shows state and National boundaries as well as cities.
What is Political Map?
These form when two CONTINENTAL Plates collide.
What is Mountains?
These are huge towers of rock.
What are Mountains?
This climate region is defined by warm temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year.
Ex: Amazon Basin, Congo Basin
What is Tropical Rain forest?
This type of Geography studies people and their activities.
What is Human Geography?
This type of map shoes the geographic features of Earth's surface using colors to represent different levels of elevation. It also has labels.
What is a Physical Map?
This is the sudden and violent movement of Earth's crust.
What are Earthquakes?
These are flatlands at higher elevations.
What are Plateaus?
This climate is cold all year round with little to no vegetation.
These are the 3 places in time Geographers use to study History.
What are Decade, Century and Millennium?
This type of Map shows different weather patterns in different places on Earth.
What is a Climatic Map?
This forms when two plates move along side each other.
What are faults?
These are deep cuts in the oceans floor.
What are Trenches?
The Characteristics of this climate region include:
■Short, mild Summers
■Long, Cold Winters
■Light precipitation
What is Subarctic?
These are the two different types of models we use to study the Earth.
What are Map and Globe?
This type of Map shows the different highways, roads or railroads present in an area.
What is a road map?
This is when water, wind & Ice move away weathered rock.
What is Erosion?
This is a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger landmasses.
What is an Isthmus?
Characteristics of this climate region include:
■Warm, dry Summers
■Mild, wet Winters
Ex: Southern California
These are the two types of Map systems Geographers and people use to determine the location of places on Earth.
What are Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS)?
This type of map shows the geographic features of an area using contour lines instead of colors.
What is a Topographic map?
This theory says that each continent sits on one or more large plates that are always moving and cause continental drift.
What is Plate Tectonics?
This is an underwater plateau that stretches for several miles off of the coast of each continent.
What is a Continental Shelf?
Characteristics of this climate region include:
■Hot, wet Summers
■Cold, somewhat wet Winters
What is Humid Subtropical?