Geography
The study of plants, landforms, and people in the Earth.
What is geography?
It gives vital information on a map, represented by colors, symbols, or lines.
What is a key or legend?
It is the average weather conditions for an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
It can be as small as a creek or as large as the Earth.
What is an ecosystem?
What is a renewable resource?
The term for when the mountain side facing away from the wind that receives little to no precipitation.
What is a rain shadow?
This type of 'location' is found by utilizing latitude and longitude lines.
What is absolute location?
It's the climate in most of the United States.
What is a temperate climate?
Two human actions or natural events that affect an ecosystem?
What are forest fires, disease, climate changes, clearing of land, polluting, etc.
Name two of four alternative forms of energy.
What are solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power and/or nuclear power?
The type of map that displays borders or boundaries.
What is a political map?
It can help determine distance on a map.
What is a scale?
These two items help to move heat across the Earth
What are air and water?
decayed plant or animal matter
What is humus?
Resources that formed from the remains of plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
Name for the imaginary lines that run horizontal to the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This imaginary line runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is a line of longitude?
Name the 5 major climate regions.
What are humid, dry, temperate, polar, and highland climates?
The uppermost layer of soil that is the most nutrient rich and fertile.
What is the topsoil?
The act of planting trees to replenish lost forestland.
Name the 5 oceans of the world.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern oceans?
The two main lines of latitude and longitude.
What is the equator and the Prime Meridian?
It's the climate region specific to mountains.
What is a highland climate?
What is a habitat?
Name two of four mineral resources?
What are metals, rocks, salt, and/or gemstones?