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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
5 themes of geography
Physical Characteristics
Changes to earths surface
100
The study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
Geography
100
A thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the earths crust that surrounds the earths core.
Mantle
100
consists of the places physical characteristics and human characteristics.
character of a place
100
the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet
biosphere
100
What are the two types of weathering
mechanical and chemical
200
consists of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it.
Functional region
200
A viewpoint that is influenced by ones own culture and experience.
perception
200
similar climates, landforms, and vegitation can be used to divide the earth into what type of region
functional regions
200
when this happens, plates can spread apart, crash into each other, or slide past each other
when plates meet
200
water, wind, and glaciers all cause what
erosion
300
a ridge like mass of rock, gravel, sand, and clay carried and deposited by a glacier.
Moraine
300
Particles of soil sand and gravel carried and deposited by wind or water
sediment
300
Longitude is measured in degrees east or west of what
Prime Meridian
300
Which theory states that the earth was once a super continent called pangea.
continental drift theory
300
carbon dioxide from the soil combining with water causes
chemical weathering
400
The surface features of the earth, including soil, rocks, and landforms.
lithosphere
400
the differences in elevations, or height, of the landforms in any particular area
reliefs
400
Humans planting trees in El Salvador falls under what theme of geography
human - environment interaction
400
what theory suggests that the earths outer shell is not one solid sheet of rock but really the earths crust is broken into a number of moving plates.
plate techtonics
400
windblown deposits of mineral rich dust and silt
loess
500
The water contained in oceans, lakes, rivers and under the ground.
hydrosphere
500
A ring of volcanic mountains surrounding the pacific ocean
ring of fire
500
What are the five themes of geography
Location, place, regions, movement, human environment interaction
500
a raised area with a generally flat surface
plateau
500
What is the most common type of mechanical weathering
water freezing in rocks, expanding, and breaking the rocks