Maps
Tool used to determine location (three letters)
What is GPS?
What is a hurricane?
three main layers of earth
economic system based on free market and private ownership
What is capitalism?
continent with the most countries
What is Africa?
imaginary line divides southern and northern hemisphere
What is the equator?
climate of the Mediteranean region
What is a warm, dry summer, mild wet winter?
flat large landform, higher than surrounding land
What is a plateau?
map that shows country borders and cities
What is a political map?
country with the largest land area
What is Russia?
located at 0 degrees longitude - imaginary line from North to South Pole
What is Prime Meridian?
wind pattern responsible for moving weather system across North America
What is Westerlies?
where two tectonic plates meet
what is a plate boundary?
exmaple of trade agreement with multiple countries
What is NAFTA?
continent with the largest population
What is Asia?
exact way to find location by degrees
what is longitude and latitude?
type of water is found in lakes, rivers, and groundwater?
freshwater
movement of water through Earth's atmosphere
What is the hydrological cycle?
an element of culture
What is language?
Where Polar Desert is found
What is Antarctica?
landform created by deposition of sediment - the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
effect on the ocean currents
What regulates temperature and distributes heat?
type of biome with most biodiversity
What is a rainforest?
study of people, goods, and ideas that move from one place to another
What is spatial interaction?
Name of the phenomenon where warm ocean waters discurpt normal weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean