Vocabulary 1
Umbrella term used to describe places that are close to one another and share some characteristics.
What is region?
Sixteen enormous pieces that make up the Earth’s crust.
What are tectonic plates?
Weather or Climate: There is a current tornado warning in Cass County.
What is weather?
Weather or Climate: Texas receives an annual rainfall of 27.25”
What is climate?
The process in which water (in the form of rain, snow, etc.) falls from clouds in the sky.
What is precipitation?
The average weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Earth’s features in terms of their locations, their shapes, and their relationships to one another.
What is spatial?
Absolute or Relative Location:
Savannah’s house is two blocks Northeast of the mall.
What is relative location?
The type of map depicting the most popular baseball teams throughout Illinois.
What is a thematic map?
Rain, snowmelt, or other water flows in surface streams.
Maps that show a wide range of information about an area including natural or human-made features.
What are general purpose maps?
A narrow band of volcanoes that stretch across 24,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Absolute or Relative Location:
3750 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108
What is absolute location?
Plate tectonics that crash into one another.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
The process in which water pools in large bodies (like lakes or oceans).
What is accumulation?
Describes where a place is compared to another place.
What is relative location?
The exact location of something.
What is absolute location?
"What is it like there?" is the question that geographers might ask to better understand this theme of geography.
What is place?
Plate tectonics that scrape alongside each other as they move in opposite directions.
What are transform plate boundaries?
The process in which water vapor (a gas)in the air turns into liquid water, thereby forming clouds in the sky.
What is condensation?
Describes each half of Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
Maps that show more specialized information.
What are thematic maps?
The Five Themes of Geography
Whare are: movement, region, human-environment interaction, location, and place.
The Earth's layers from outside to inside.
What are crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
What is evaporation?