Geography
The study of Earth and its people.
What Is Geography?
The air surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
A form of government in which the people or a majority of the people rule, usually through officials chosen in free elections.
What is a democratic government?
A flat drawing of all or part of Earth’s surface.
What is a map?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time or day in a particular place.
What is weather?
A form of government in which one person or a small group of persons rules.
What is totalitarian government?
A model of Earth.
What is a globe?
The weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A totalitarian government in which an individual leader exercises virtually unlimited power.
What is a dictatorship?
An imaginary line around Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the equator?
Seven large landmasses that make up most of Earth’s land surface.
What are continents?
Lines running parallel with the equator that show distances measured in degrees north or south from the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
The movement of water from the clouds to the ground and then back again to the clouds.
What is the water cycle?