Studying Geography
Earth in Space
Weather and Climate
Landforms, Water, and Natural Resources
Human Geography
Human Systems
100
This is the study of everything on Earth.
What is geography?
100
One of the following is not a satellite: the Moon, the Earth, the Sun, Space Lab.
What is the Sun?
100
This is the process by which water vapor changes from gas into liquid.
What is condensation?
100
We call it this when rocks break down over time.
What is weathering?
100
This is someone who comes to a new country to live.
What is an immigrant?
100
In this kind of economy, I can choose what to buy and sell. Hey, it's a free country!
What is market economy?
200
The Corn Belt is an example of this kind of region.
What is a formal region?
200
These form the grid that divides our planet.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
200
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is the weather?
200
Water can do this to shorelines.
What is erosion?
200
These are groups that share a common culture or ancestry?
What are ethnic groups?
200
These can lead to conflict between countries. They are meant to protect a country's industries from foreign competition.
What are tariffs?
300
This is the largest employer of cartographers. One of their markers is seen here.
What is the US Geological Survey?
300
These four spheres make up the Earth's environment.
What are the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
300
These kinds of forests can often be found in tropical humid climates.
What are rainforests?
300
This is what these things have in common: coal, oil, gas.
What are fossil fuels?
300
These could cause someone to leave or move to a place.
What are push-pull factors?
300
The government tells me what to buy and sell, and how much to sell it for. Government work isn't so bad...
What is command economy?
400
Cites and suburbs are examples of this kind of region
What is a functional region?
400
This is a day when day is the same length as night.
What is an equinox?
400
This kind of climate supports large boreal (evergreen)forests.
What is a subarctic climate?
400
These are artificial channels for transporting water. Here's one the Romans built 2000 years ago.
What is an aqueduct?
400
This is when a group of people adopts some of the traits from another group. If they adopt all traits, its assimilation!
What is acculturation?
400
These divide countries based on culture traits, or religion.
What are cultural boundaries?
500
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
What are the five themes of geography?
500
This is invisible line where the date changes and time travel can be possible!
What is the International Date Line?
500
Mountains can influence climate through this.
What is the orographic effect?
500
This is the process by which salt is taken out of seawater.
What is desalinization?
500
This process helps the countries of the world become more connected.
What is globalization?
500
This kind of economic system allows people to make goods for themselves and their families. No one else!
What is subsistence (or traditional) economy?