Is the study of the world's physical features: Land-forms, climate, bodies of water, soils and plants.
100
What is Glacier?
Slowly moving river of ice.
100
Divided into Tundra and Ice Caps.
What is the Polar climate divided into?
100
What are Physical regions?
Areas that share the same climate, plants and animals.
100
What is a Thematic map?
Specialized map that shows one feature such as population, water sources, temperatures, routes, soils types and resources.
200
The study of the water on earth .Geographers study rivers systems, floods causes, rainfall patterns and how people get drinking water. They try to protect the world’s supply of water.
What is Hydrology?
200
Passage way of water connecting 2 large bodies of water.
What is a Strait?
200
What are climates are determined by?
Temperature
Rainfall
Cloudiness
Wind
Pressure
Humidity :)
200
What are the 2 types of location?
Absolute Location
Relative Location
200
How many lines of latitude are there in all?
There are 180 line of latitude in all.
300
What is Cartography?
The science if making maps. Maps are really important, long ago they were drawn by hand and weren’t accurate but now they are done on computers and satellite images.
300
A body of water that is partly closed.
What is a Bay?
300
Cold winters, mild summers and rain throughout the year.
What is Moist-Cold climate?
300
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location
Place
Movement
Regions
Human-Environment Interaction
300
What are the Intermediate directions?
List them:
Are directions that come between 2 cardinal directions.
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
400
Is the study of the world’s people, communities and landscapes.
What is Human Geography?
400
What is a Desert?
Dry area of land with little or no rainfall.
400
Vegetation= Plants with long roots like cacti to be able to store water.
What must the vegetation of the Dry climate be?
400
Say 3 examples the people affect the environment in.
Building dams
Deforestation
Planting Crops
etc.......
400
Title
Scale
Map Key
Compass Rose
What are the elements of a map?
500
The study of the weather and what causes it. ______ists study weather patterns in a particular area.
What is Meteorology?
500
Wide relative flat area of land that has grasses and few trees.
What is a Prairie?
500
What is Precipitation?
Is snow, rain or hail formed by the condensation of moisture in the atmosphere that falls to the ground.
500
What are freight ships?
Special designed ships for carrying goods across the ocean for long trips.
500
Hoe many types of graphs are there? List them and explain one of them.