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Studying Geography
Earth in Space
Weather and Climate
Landforms, Water & Natural Resources
Miscellaneous
100
The study of the physical, biological and cultural features of the Earth's surface.
What is geography?
100
Energy from the Sun, which reaches Earth as light and heat.
What is solar energy?
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
100
A process in which water is artificially supplied to the land.
What is irrigation?
100
What two non renewable resources do we use most in the USA?
What are oil and coal?
200
Lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction measured in degrees. Also known as parallels.
What is latitude?
200
Warm low latitude areas near the equator.
What are the tropics?
200
The most powerful and destructive tropical cyclones.
What are hurricanes?
200
Thick masses of ice, including great ice sheets and bodies of ice that flow down mountains like slow rivers.
What are glaciers?
200
Two popular types of renewable resources.
What are water and wind (or geothermal)?
300
An area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
300
The part of Earth that includes all life forms.
What is the biosphere?
300
Communities of plants and animals.
What is an ecosystem?
300
The process by which rocks break and decay over time.
What is weathering?
300
The Holy Land is this type of region.
What is perceptual region?
400
The imaginary line drawn from the North Pole through Greenwich, England, to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
One complete spin of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
The process in which Earth's atmosphere traps heat energy.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
The movement of water through the hydrosphere.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
400
Three types of tectonic plate movement.
What are divergent, convergent and transform?
500
The way a person looks at something.
What is a perspective?
500
The time that Earth's poles point at thier greatest angle toward or away from the Sun.
What is a solstice?
500
A wind system in which winds reverse direction and cause seasons of wet and dry weather.
What are monsoons?
500
Movement of surface material from one location to another by water, wind and ice.
What is erosion?
500
A distinct geographic region with its own particular kinds of plants and animals
What is a biome?