The Physical Environment Review Game

Tectonic Plates

1

Five features of the Earth that Plate movements cause.

What is Rift Valleys, Oceans, Plateaus, Mountains and Volcanos?

2

Number and names of the oceans

DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN THE CONFLICT

What is Atlantic (North and South), Pacific (North and South), Indian, Arctic, and Southern?

Dispute over how to count the Oceans 

3

Plateaus in the U.S.

What is Colorado Plateau and Appalachian Plateau?

4

Percentage of the Earth that the Ocean takes up

What is 71%

5

3 types of volcanos AND 5 types of Eruptions

What is

The Three Classic Types of Volcanoes :Cinder Cone Volcanoes, Composite Volcanoes (Stratovolcanoes), Shield Volcanoes.

AND

Six types of eruptions: Icelandic, Hawaiian, Strombolian, Vulcanian., Pelean, Plinian.

Natural Disasters

1

Define Natural Disaster

What is "the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community."

2

90% of Natural Disasters are this

What is Flood?

3

Six types of Disasters we talked about

What is Winter Storms, Hurricanes, Tornados, Earthquakes, Floods, and Wildfires.

4

Three main focuses of Natural Disasters

What is Prepare, Prevent, and Mitigate?

5

Pick a Natural Disaster and give examples of how to reduce damage from the disaster.

What is...

(Any acceptable answer)

Erosion

1

Types of Erosion

What is Surface, Fluvial, Streambank, and mass-movement

2

Example of Streambank Erosion

What is Grand Canyon

or anything else that works

3

Example of Mass-Movement

What is Mud Slide

or anything else that works

4

Example of Fluvial Erosion

What is Niagara Falls

or anything else that works

5

Examples of Surface Erosion

What is a mesa

or any other acceptable answer

Habitats

1

Aquatic Habitat

What is the seas and oceans, lakes and rivers, wetlands and marshes, and lagoons and swamps of the world?

2

Characteristics of a Desert Habitat

What is dry land with scarce precipitation? 

3

Different Forest Habitats (5 types)

What is temperate, tropical, cloud, coniferous, and boreal?

4

Types of Grasslands and their Characteristics

What is tropical grasslands (also known as savannas) and temperate grasslands?

Temperate grasslands include Eurasian steppes, North American prairies, and Argentine pampas. Tropical grasslands include the hot savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and northern Australia.

5

Example of a Tundra

What is the Arctic?

Misc.

1

Impact of Pollution

Varied Answer

2

Examples of Human Modification

What is Dams, Agriculture, and Industrialization? 

3

Four Necessary Elements for Life

What is air, water, food, and shelter

4

Difference between Renewable and Non-renewable

What is Naturally replaced quickly versus how long it takes or impossibility of replacing?

5

Five types of climates

What is dry, continental, tropical, temperate, and Polar