Vocabulary
The study of Earth.
What is Geography?
The two types of geography.
What are human geography and physical geography?
The line of zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These cause changes to the Earth quickly.
What are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The process in which plates below Earth's surface shift.
What is plate tectonics?
A location's distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
The Potato Famine in Ireland was an example of this type of immigration.
What is a push?
The line of zero degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
These cause changes to the earth slowly.
What are weathering and erosion?
What is a fault?
Imaginary lines around Earth that run in the same direction as the equator, but never cross it.
What are Parallels?
The Gold Rush is an example of this type of immigration.
What is a pull?
An imaginary line that is about 1800 longitude and runs through the Pacific Ocean. East of the line, the calendar date is one day earlier that the date of west of the line.
What is the International Date Line?
The Earth is divided into 24 of these.
What are Time Zones?
Greatness in size.
What is magnitude?
A location's distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
The Dust Bowl is an example of this type of immigration.
What is a push?
A change in the original shape of something.
What is distortion?
This shows the relationship between real distances and how they are represented on a map.
What is a scale?
The wearing away of a material.
What is weathering?
A line of longitude
What is meridian?
A mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
This type of geography studies the ways people interact with the environment.
What is Human Geography?
A natural process in which land moves from one place to another on Earth's surface.
What is erosion?