This acronym helps you remember the 5 themes of Geography
What is MR. HELP?
100
This idea proposed that there was once a single supercontinent that drifted into severals separate continents.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
100
These are the three types of erosion.
What are wind, water, and glacial?
100
The two types of weathering are.
What are mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?
100
A string of volcanos that stretches from Japap all the way around to the United States.
What is the Ring of Fire
200
People define an area based on their feelings or attitudes about it. One example is the Upper Midwest. (be specific)
What is Perceptual Region?
200
The three types of plate movement.
What are converging, diverging, and transforming?
200
During the dust bowl wind erosion blew away a valuable, mineral rich dust/silt that farmers rely upon called this.
What is loess
200
Frost wedging is the most common type of this weathering
What is Mechanical Weathering?
200
The layer of the earth that contains soil, rocks and landforms.
What is crust or lithosphere?
300
142 Smith Street, Las Vegas, NV is an example of this.
What is Absolute Location?
300
This type of plate movement occurs when two types of plates move towards one another.
What is converging?
300
This is how glaciers alter the landscape.
What is carrying dirt, rocks, and boulders, depositing the debris in other places.
300
This type of weathering can change one type of rock into another type of rock.
What is Chemical Weathering?
300
Landforms commonly classified by the difference in height from the highest to lowest point.
What is relief?
400
Railroad expansion out West during the 1800's is an example of this.
What is Movement?
400
Name 3 types of landforms or effects caused by plate tectonics?
What are volcanos, rift valleys, earthquakes, island chanins, mountain ranges, tsunamis, geysers, or faults?
400
These are the differences in landscape created by water and glaciers.
What are water: v shaped valleys glacier: u shaped
400
The breakdown of rock at or near the earth's surface into smaler and smaller pieces is known as.
What is weathering?
400
Name the 7 continents and 4 oceans.
What are
continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica
oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic
500
Planting tall grasses in sand dunes to prevent erosion is an example of this?
What is Human Environment Interaction
500
What landform effect would you expect to see when two plates are transforming plates?
What is a fault?
500
This type of landform, present in Wisconsin, is created by glaciers.
What is moraine?
500
Places where weathering can be seen around the COMMUNITY.
What are: seeds taking root in cracks in the sidewalk, tomstones and stone statues having more dull features, break down in brick or mortar, damage to stone buildings?
500
Explain why the Tsunami traveled faster and farther in some areas of Japan than others.
What is shallower water, narrower landforms such as ridges that create a funnel, city is set closer to sea level, closer to the epicenter.