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| The study of people, their environment, and their resources is called __________ | Geography |
| An account of what has happened in the lives of different people is called ______. | History |
| This geographic theme describes where an event happened. | Location |
| The two types of location are ____ and ____. | exact and relative |
| What is the relative location? | About where it happened |
| This runs North and South of the equator. | Latitude |
| This measures the distance East and West of the Prime Meridian. | Longitude |
| The Prime Meridian runs through where? | Greenwich, England |
| What is the geographic theme of interaction? | Interaction between people and their environment |
| Irrigation is an example of which theme? | Interaction |
| Why does movement occur? | People and resources are scattered unevenly around the globe. |
| This is an area of the world that has similar, unifying characteristics. | Region |
| A drawing of the Earth's surface is called a _____. | map |
| A sphere with a map on it is called a ________. | Globe |
| What are some advantages of maps? | They are easy to carry, you can see all of the world at once, can see more detail |
| What are some advantages of globes? | They are more accurate |
| Mapmakers are called _______. | Cartographers |
| Ways of drawing the Earth on a flat surface is called a _______. | Map Projection |
| Explain the Mercator Projection. | It shows true shapes and it distorts sizes especially as you move from the equator |
| What projection do we use the most today? | Robinson Projection |
| This type of map shows manmade boundaries. | Political Map |
| This map shows natural features like mountains and rivers | Physical Map |
| What is a thematic map? | A map that shows a theme like population, economic activity or climate |
| This divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. | equator |
| This divides the Earth into East and West Hemispheres. | Prime Meridian |
| Everything in the United States in which two hemispheres? | Northern and Western |
| Why does time differ from place to place? | Because the Earth rotates on its axis |
| How many time zones are there in the United States? | 4 |
| How many time zones are there in the world? | 24 |
| Which time zone do we live in? | Central |
| Why did early maps have so many errors? | They didn't know a lot about the world and they learned from sailors and explorers |
| What makes many of our maps today so accurate? | Satellites |
| A narrow strip of land joining two large land masses is called an ____________. | Isthmus |
| What was the first satellite to take pictures of the Earth? | Landsat I |
| High, steep, rugged land is called a ______. | Mountain |
| Areas of Raised land that are lower and more rounded than mountains are called _______. | Hills |
| A broad area of flat land is called a ________. | Plain |
| A large area of high, flat land is called a _____. | Plateau |
| This physical region includes the Sierra Nevadas and the city of Los Angelas? | Pacific Coast |
| This is the name of the fault line that runs through Los Angelas. | San Andreas Fault |
| This geographic region includes the Grand Canyon and the Great Salt Lake. | Intermountain |
| What river cut the Grand Canyon? | Colorado River |
| This region was a serious barrier to westward expansion. | Rocky Mountains |
| The area between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains is called the _____. | Interior Plain |
| What two areas can the Interior Plains be broken into? | Great Plains and Central Plains |
| The barren area of South Dakota is called _______. | The Badlands |
| The Great Smokey Mountains are part of which geographic region? | Appalachian Mountains |
| The lowland area of Canada that extends into the United States is called the _______. | Canadian Shield |
| This lies between the Atlantic Ocean and the foothills of the Appalachians. | Coastal Plains |
| The part of the coastal plain that lies along the Gulf of Mexico is called the _______. | Gulf Plain |
| This is a region of eight islands that are the visible tops of volcanos. | Hawaii |
| This is the longest river in the United States. | Mississippi River |
| This artist is well known for his black and white photographs of American landscapes. | Ansel Adams |
| This is the river between the United States and Canada. | St. Lawrence River |
| The condition of the Earth's atmosphere at any given place is its _______. | Weather |
| The average weather of a place for a period of twenty to thirty years. | Climate |
| What factors affect climate? | Ocean currents, wind currents, and mountains |
| What type of climate does the Pacific Northwest have? | Marine- moist winds bring moisture |
| What type of climate does California have? | Mediterranean |
| What is highland climate? | Climate in the mountains, it varies by altitude. |
| This is the climate of western Nebraska. | Desert and Steppe |
| This climate has tall prarie grass and is the climate of the Central Plains. | Humid Continental |
| Name two places where you would find tropical and subtropical climate? | Southern Florida and Hawaii |
| What is the climate of Alaska? | Tundra and Subarctic |
