Physical Features and Geoterms
Geographic Setting
5 Themes and Maps
Technology and The Earth
Misc yet Important information
100
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is tributary?
100
El Capitan is located at 10410 Ashwood Street Lakeside, CA 92040.
What is absolute location?
100
The part of a map that explains how far a place is to another.
What is map scale?
100
In order to give credit to the source of a photo you must do this
What is cite the URl of the source the photo came from?
100
This climate zone is cold all year with little precipitation.
What is tundra?
200
A narrow strip of land that links two larger landmasses.
What is isthmus?
200
A particular way of showing Earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
200
Three examples of culture.
What is student answers will vary - food, music, art, clothing, beliefs, books, etc.
200
The site address of a place.
What is URL?
200
Hawaii is the most isolated this on Earth.
What is archipelago?
300
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
300
The only way to show a spherical earth on a flat map is by stretching some parts of it - a process that changes the shape, size and position of earth's features.
What is distortion?
300
Measures the distance from a place from the equator. The other lines measure distrance from a place from the prime meridian.
What is latitude? What is longitude?
300
Using someone else's intellectual property and passing it off as your own.
What is plagiarism?
300
This lies at 66 degrees North.
What is arctic circle?
400
A map that may show one of these particular themes: landforms, climate, vegetation, population density or economic activity for example.
What is thematic map?
400
True or False....All flat maps are distrorted in some way.
What is true?
400
This theme of the 5 themes of Geography deals with how people change their land.
What is Human-Environnment Interation?
400
The amount of time (365) days it takes the Earth to make one round trip around the sun.
What is revolution?
400
Winter in San Diego is this season in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What is summer?
500
The study of how the physical land interacts with the cultural elements of the earth.
What is Geography?
500
This map shows directions between places accurately near the equator but distorts the size of continents, especially near the North and South poles.
What is Mercator projection?
500
This theme of the 5 themes relates to the similarities one area shares with another.
What is Regions?
500
60 degrees North is a line of this while 60 degrees east is a line of this.
What is latitude? Longitude?
500
deciduous forest, tropical grassland, and chparral are all examples of this.
What is vegetation zones?