Studying Geography
The study of the physical, biological and cultural features of the Earth's surface.
What is geography?
Energy from the Sun, which reaches Earth as light and heat.
What is solar energy?
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
This landform is over 2000 feet high and contains a summit.
What is a mountain?
What does E.S.P.N. stand for?
What is economic, social, political, and environmental?
Lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction measured in degrees. Also known as parallels.
What is latitude?
Warm low latitude areas near the equator have this type of climate.
What are the tropics?
The most powerful and destructive tropical cyclones.
What are hurricanes?
Earthquakes occur along this type of plate boundary.
What are fault lines (transform boundary)?
Describe absolute location.
What is the exact coordinates or location of a place using longitude and latitude?
An area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
The part of Earth that includes all life forms.
What is the biosphere?
Communities of plants and animals.
What is an ecosystem?
The process by which rocks break and decay over time.
What is weathering?
The Holy Land is this type of region.
What is perceptual region?
The imaginary line drawn from the North Pole through Greenwich, England, to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
One complete spin of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
What type of severe weather has considerable amount of falling snow, winds over 35 mph, and visibility less than 1/4 mile for more than three hours?
What is a blizzard?
When two plates collide or subduct.
What is a convergent boundary?
Map that shows state or country boundaries.
What are political maps?
The study of how humans affect the environment and how the environment affects humans.
What is a human-environment interaction?
The skin of the earth.
What is the lithosphere?
A rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cloud.
What are tornadoes?
Movement of surface material from one location to another by water, wind and ice.
What is erosion?
A distinct geographic region with its own particular kinds of plants and animals
What is a biome?