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study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth |
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Location: where is it?
Place: what is it like?
Region: how are places similar of different?
Movement: how do ppl, goods, and ideas move from one location to another?
(Human-Environment) Interaction: how do ppl relate to the physical world?
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5 themes of geography
---L,W, R,M, (H-E) I---
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| exact place on earth where a geographic feature, such as a city, is found |
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| describes a place in comparison to other places around it |
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| the imaginary line that divides the north and south halves |
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| the imaginary line dividing the earth east and west (Greenwich meridian--- runs through Greenwich, England) |
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| locate places north and south; parallel to the equator |
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| mark positions in the ease and west hemispheres--- prime meridian is zero-degree line |
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| two-dimensional graphic representations of selected parts of the earth's surface |
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| three-dimensional representation of the earth |
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| a way of drawing Earth's surface by presenting a round Earth on flat paper |
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| a representation of natural and man-made features on the earth |
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| actually a series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above Earth |
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| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
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| stores information about the world in a digital database |
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| land masses above water on earth |
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| consists of the sun and nine known planets as well as other celestial bodies that orbit the sun |
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| large chunks of rocky material |
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| center of the earth and is made up of iron and nickel |
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The outer core is ____, but the inner core is ____. |
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| surrounds the core (many layers); it contains most of the Earth's ___. |
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| thin layer of rock at earth's surface |
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| surrounding the earth is a layer of gases |
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| lithosphere; crust; mantle |
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solid rock portion of earth's surface is the ____, which includes the ____ and uppermost ____. |
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| made up of the water elements on earth, which include oceans, sea, rivers, lakes, and water in the atmosphere |
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| the atmosphere, the lithosphere, and the hydrosphere form the ____ |
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| theory - earth was once a supercontinent that divided and slowly drifted apart over millions of years |
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| The earth is unlike any other planet in our solar system. It is a ____ planet. |
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| The ocean is an interconnected body of salt water that covers about __ percent of our planet. It covers a little more than __ percent of the Northern Hemisphere and about __ percent of the Southern Hemisphere. |
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| The largest of the oceans is the ____. |
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| Currents, waves, and tides |
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The salty water of the ocean circulates through three basic motions: (c, w, t)
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| act like rivers flowing through the ocean (c, w, or t) |
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| swells or ridges produced by winds (c, w, or t) |
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| the regular rises and falls of the ocean created by the gravitational pull of the moon or the sun (c, w, or t) |
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| the continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth |
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| Lakes hold more than ___ percent of all the earth's fresh water supply. |
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| Largest freshwater lake is Lake ___ in Russia |
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| geographers call an area drained by a major river and its tributaries |
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| water held in pores of rock |
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| lvl at which the rock is saturated marks the rim of the ___ ___. |
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| The water table can __ or __ depending on the amount of precipitation in the region and on the amount of water pumped out of the ground. |
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| naturally formed features on the surface of the earth |
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| the earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean |
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| the difference in elevation of a landform from its lowest point to its highest point |
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| mountains, hills, plains, and plateaus |
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| Four categories of relief: (m, h, pl, and p) |
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| the combination of the surface shape and composition of the landforms and their distribution in a region |
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| enormous moving pieces of the earth's lithosphere |
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| plates move apart, spreading horizontally |
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| plates collied, causing either one plate to dive under the other or the edges of both plates to crumple |
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| plates slide past one another |
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| fracture in the earth's crust |
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| violent movement of the earth |
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| a special device can detect earthquakes |
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| the point directly above the focus on the earth's surface |
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| uses information collected by seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake |
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| a giant wave in the ocean caused by an earthquake |
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| a crack in earth's surface that magma comes out of |
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| magma that has reached earth's surface |
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- a zone around the rim off the Pacific Ocean
- its the location of the vast majority of active volcanoes
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| ___ ___ and ___ are indications of high temperatures in the earth's crust |
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| when ground water circulates near a magma chamber, then the water heats up and rises to the surface |
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| a hot spring that occasionally erupts with steam jets and boiling water |
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| refers to physical and chemical processes that change the characteristics of rock on or near the earth's surface |
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| weathering processes create smaller and smaller pieces of rock |
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| process that break rock into smaller pieces |
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| when a rock is changed into a new substance as a result of interaction between elements in the air or water and the minerals in the rock |
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| when weathered material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice, or gravity |
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| windblown silt and clay sediment that produce very fertile soil and found all across the world |
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| a large., long-lasting mass of ice that moves because of gravity |
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| the changing of landforms by slowly moving glaciers |
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| rocks left behind a glacier may form a ridge or a hill |
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| the day at which the sun's rays shine directly over head at noon |
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| the days and nights all over the world are equal in length |
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| the condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time |
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| the term for weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time |
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| falling water droplets in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail |
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| the side gets little rain from the descending dry air |
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| storms that form over warm, tropical water, also know as ___. |
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| a powerful funnel-shaped column of spiraling air |
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| a heavy snowstorm with winds of more than 35 miles per hour and reduced visibility |
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| a long period of time without rain or will very minimal rainfall |
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