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5 Themes of Geography
Landforms
Climographs
Ecosystems
Climate Zones
100
A car is imported from Italy to the United States.
What is Movement?
100
An area of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
100
Climographs represent these two things.
What is temperature and precipitation?
100
2 parts of an ecosystem.
What is any pairing of climate, landforms, plants, and animals?
100
Temperature + precipitation.
What is climate?
200
Detroit, the Motor City.
What is Region?
200
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land. Example: the country of Panama.
What is an isthmus?
200
Represented by the line graph.
What is temperature?
200
Centered around animals from the ocean.
What is a marine/island ecosystem?
200
Very cold, no plant life.
What is an ice cap?
300
Recycling empty water bottles.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
300
An area of land almost completely surrounded by water but connected to the mainland? Example: Michigan.
What is a peninsula?
300
Represented by the bar graph.
What is precipitation?
300
Has very high temperatures, low precipitation, and animals like lizards and snakes.
What is a desert ecosystem?
300
Hot and dry summers, mild and cool winters. Typically found in southern Europe and the northern coast of Africa.
What is a mediterranean climate?
400
Ecorse, MI - classroom - school
What is place?
400
A body of water that is partly surrounded by land and that is connected to a larger body of water.
What is a bay?
400
The type of precipitation that falls when the temperature is below 32 degrees fahrenheit.
What is snow?
400
Remains warm all year long and receives a lot of rainfall.
What is a tropical forest ecosystem?
400
Few extremes of temperatures, and a lot of precipitation all year round. Michigan is part of this climate zone.
What is marine west coast climate?
500
Michigan is north of Ohio, east of Wisconsin, and west of Canada.
What is location?
500
An area that is lower than surrounding land areas; some are filled with water.
What is a basin?
500
All 4 types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
500
Large changes in temperature, many different plants and animals.
What is a mountain ecosystem?
500
Severe lack of water which prevents much plant or animal life.
What is an arid, or desert, climate?