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44 Cards in this Set
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What are the 5 themes of Geography?
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Location
Regions Movement Human Environment Interaction Place |
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What descriptions go with Region?
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Similar Physical Features
Similar Human Features |
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What descriptions go with Location?
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Absolute Location
Relative Location |
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Which characteristics go with Place?
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Physical characteristics
Human characteristics |
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What questions does movement ask?
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How do people travel?
How do they exchange goods and ideas? |
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What questions are involved in Human-Environment Interaction?
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How do people react to their environment?
How do they change environment? |
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What is Latitude?
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lines that run parallel to Equator/measuring N & S
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What is longitude?
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Lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian/measuring E & W
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In the Center of the Earth going east to west around the globe is what? It has 0 degrees
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Equator
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It runs through the tip of Africa across the Atlantic custs into the tip of Madagascar & around the Globe parallel to the equator
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Topic of Cancer
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Where is the Prime Meridian
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At 0 degrees running north and south around the globe. divides the globe into hemispheres
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What's the home of the Prime Meridian?
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Greenwich England
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What is the theory of Plate Techtonics?
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The outer shell of Earth isn't one solid rock. The lithosphere is broken into plates that aren't anchord but slide over hot and flexible layers of the mantle. Oceans and continents ride on top the plates as they move in different directions.
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What happens when plates meet and push or pull away from each other?
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It causes volcanoes and earthquakes
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What are the circle of volcanes surround the Pacific Ocean?
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Ring of Fire
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What does a relief map show?
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Levels of land and their differening elevations
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A raised area or mound of land is what?
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Hill
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A very tall high natural place/taller than a hill?
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MOUNTAIN
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What are areas of high flat land?
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PLATEAUS
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What is a group or chain of islands clustered together in the sea/ocean?
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ARCHIPELAGO
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What are flat lands with only small changes in elevation?
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PLAINS
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What is a body of water partly enclosed by land (smaller than a gulf)?
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BAY
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A flat topped rock or hill formed with steep sides is called ?
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BUTTE
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What's a narrow body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water?
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STRAIT
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A narrow strip of land, connecting 2 larger landmasses with water on 2 sides is what?
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ISTHMUS
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The area is often wet with low oxygen in the soil. Plants adapt to the we soil. What is it called?
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WETLANDS
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Name some types of wetlands?
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SWAMP
SLOUGH FEN BOG MARSH MOOR |
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What is a canyon?
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a deep valley with very steep sides often carved by a river
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What are wide, relativly flat lands that have grasses and few trees?
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PLAINS
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What are foothills?
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Hills at the base of the mountain.
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What are the cold, often frigid, treeless areas (an ecosystem)
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TUNDRA
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Large body of water surrounded by land on ALL SIDES called ____?
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LAKE
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HOW DOES WEATHER AND CLIMATE DIFFER?
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Weather is the condition of the bottom layer of the atmosphere a short period of time, while CLIMATE is a weather pattern of a particular area over a long period of time.
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What is the GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
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Solar radiation that reaches the earth in small amounts which warms the earth and water.
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Why do we have seasons?
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As the earth tilts on it axis and rotates around the sun we get the seasons.
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At the Equator the climate is ?
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Temperatures in the 80's cloud cover, and wet weather daily.
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The temperate zone is?
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It would feel around 50 degrees 4-6 months of the year. It doesn't receive a lot of rain and temperatures are mild. Located between the Tropic of Cancer and the ARtic or Anartic.
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What is an ecosystem?
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An area formed by the interaction of polants and animal life and physical environment.
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What is a major type of ecosystem found in various regions throughout the world?
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BIOME
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What are the 4 types of ecosystems?
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1) Forrest
2) Grasslands 3) Deserts 4) Tundras |
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What are the 8 things that affect the earth's climate?
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Wind patterns, Percipitation, latitude and longitude, elevation, landforms, rotation & revolution, nearby bodies of water, Currents
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How do the ocean currents affect climate ?
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Water currents carry warm water from the tropics to the poles and other currents carry cold water to the Equator.
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Know the parts of the map like rose, scale, key and title.
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Be able to label them.
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Be able to identify the pictures of key terms that Mrs. Miller gave you.
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you know the ones that have the picture on them and then defintion.
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