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Land Forms
Water Forms
The Five Themes
Physical Geography
Hodgepodge
100
It sticks out into a body of water, which surrounds it on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
A large natural stream of water that flows through the land.
What is a river?
100
Its NOT the exact position of a place on the Earth but where it is in relation to something else.
What is relative location?
100
This is the layer of the Earth that is directly under the crust.
What is the mantle?
100
Its the study of the Earth and its people?
What is geography?
200
Its flat, at low elevation, and is often covered with grasses.
What is a plain?
200
A small river that flows into a larger one.
What is a tributary?
200
X marks this spot.
What is absolute location?
200
The formation and movement of the continents is explained by this theory.
What is plate tectonics or continental drift?
200
Its abbreviation is GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
300
Its an area of flat land but its also at a high elevation.
What is a plateau?
300
A sheltered body of water.
What is a harbor?
300
This might be known for its mountains, or like in Hampton Roads, for all of the water surrounding us.
What is place?
300
This term is used to describe two plates that collide.
What is convergence?
300
A sudden and violent movement of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
400
Its a low-lying area that is created from the build-up of silt carried downstream by a river.
What is a delta?
400
A large body of water either completely or partly surrounded by land.
What is a sea?
400
Migration falls under this theme.
What is movement?
400
These major winds follow patterns that are similar over time.
What are prevailing winds?
400
Winds that generally flow along the equator are called these.
What are easterlies or trade winds?
500
An area drained by a given river and its branches.
What is a basin?
500
Narrow body of water joining two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
500
Along coastal Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay helps to define many of the communities that reside along it and together they are this.
What is a region?
500
The greenhouse effect describes how the Earth's atmosphere traps the sun's heat with these.
What are greenhouse gases?
500
Currents are flowing streams of water in the world's oceans and seas that are either _____ or _______.
What is warm or cold?