Vocab
Geography Basics
Our Planet, Earth
Climates and Ecosystems
100

The study of the human and non-human features of the Earth.

What is geography?

100

The four main directions are known as this.

What are the cardinal directions?

100

When the Earth spins in orbit and a whole day passes is called this.

What is a rotation?

100

The condition of the air and sky at a certain time and place.

What is weather?

200

the position north or south of the Equator.

What is Latitude?

200

A model of the Earth.

What is a globe?

200

When the Earth makes a full orbit around the sun.

What is a revolution?
200

The average weather of a place over many years.

What is climate?

300

The position of degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.

What is Longitude?

300

The upper wording on a map is called this.

What is a map title?

300

Earth is split up into many different zones that help guide the daylight.

What are time zones?
300
These are the three latitude zones.

What are Tropics, Temperate, and Polar Zones?

400

A point in which everywhere on earth, day and nights are nearly equal.

What is an equinox?

400

Box on a map that explains the symbols or colors.

What is the map key?

400

The inner two layers of Earth.

What is the core and mantle?

400
The three types of ecosystems.

What are Forest, Grassland, and Cold Climate?

500

A point in which days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other.

What is a solstice?
500

These are the five main themes of geography.

What is location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?

500

The outer most layer of Earth.

What is the crust?

500
What are these following steps associated with. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and remaining.

What is the Water Cycle?