Geography Basics
The study of human and nonhuman features on Earth.
What is Geography?
The amount of time it takes the Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Useful materials found in the environment.
What are Natural Resources?
Group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country.
What is Government?
Historians study _________.
What is the Past?
The imaginary line that marks halfway between the North and South Poles. Marks 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
The Earth rotates around the ________.
What is The Sun?
Formed over millions of years from remains of plants and animals.
What are Fossil Fuels?
Set of basic rules and principles for running a government.
What is a Constitution?
The scientific study of past cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence.
What is Archaeology?
The imaginary line drawn connecting the North and South Poles passing through Greenwich, England. Marks 0° of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The process of water changing from a liquid to a gas.
What is Evaporation?
Beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.
What is Culture?
Legal member of a country.
What is a Citizen?
The study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture.
What is Anthropology?
A point where day and night are nearly equal on Earth.
What is an Equinox?
The process of water changing from a gas back into a liquid.
What is Condensation?
The study of how people meet their wants and needs.
What is Economics?
Legal process in which an immigrant becomes a citizen.
What is Naturalization?
Bones and other remains preserved in rock.
What are Fossils?
A point where days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other.
What is a Solstice?
The process of water falling from the sky back to the Earth.
What is Precipitation?
What is the difference between a renewable resource and a nonrenewable resource?
A renewable resource can be replaced quickly, but a nonrenewable resource takes millions of years to replace.
First 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
List two of the three basic purposes of government.
Keep order, provide services, protect the common good.