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Landforms of the World
Forces of Change
Themes of Geography
Maps etc.
Miscellaneous
100
The highest point of elevation on the planet
What is Mount Everest?
100
Three external forces of change
What are Wind, Water, and Glaciers?
100
the specific site of a place, given in terms of latitude and longitude
What is location?
100
the projection of the round Earth onto a flat surface
What is a map projection?
100
the theory that the continents were once joined together and then slowly drifted apart
What is the continental drift theory?
200
Lowest elevation on the surface of the earth
What are the the shores around the Dead Sea?
200
Internal forces of change
What are tectonic plates?
200
the particular space with physical and human meaning with its own unique human and environmental characteristics
What is place?
200
the effect of projecting the globe onto flat surfaces, particularly at the polar regions
What is distortion?
200
the process of turning saltwater into fresh water, usually through the use of distillation
What is desalination (or desalinization)?
300
Earth's deepest known depression
What is the Mariana Trench?
300
The wearing down of rocks by forces of nature
What is weathering?
300
the act or process of changing the place or position of people, places, or ideas
What is movement?
300
The line of longitude at 0 degrees, running through Greenwich, England
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
computer tools that process and organize data and satellite images with other types of information gathered by geographers and other scientists
What are Geographic Information Systems?
400
The place where two tectonic plates collide
What is a convergent boundary?
400
the pile of rocks and debris left behind by a receding glacier
What is a moraine?
400
the study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment
What is human-environment interaction?
400
Key components of a map
What are the title, compass rose, scale, and key?
400
specialists who make and design maps
Who are cartographers?
500
The zone of earthquake and volcanic activity around the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
the process that occurs when a sea plate and a continental plate meet and piles of debris build up, sometimes causing continents to grow outwards
What is accretion?
500
the grouping of places with similar characteristics made by geographers in order to better study the world
What are regions?
500
Maps that emphasize a single idea or particular kind of information.
What is a thematic map?
500
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
What are the intermediate directions?