Exploring Geography
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- The five themes of geography are?
- location, character, similar and differences, how do people, goods and ideas moved between places.
- Landforms, climate, and vegetation are?
- Physical Characteristics
- Irrigation systems, houses and roads are examples of?
- Human Characteristics people changing envioronment
- which of the following is an example of the movement of people, goods and ideas between places
- New Orleans
- the earth is a planet affected by?
-
Human environment interaction
- landforms on the earths surfaces are created and changed by>
- lithosphere
- according to the theory of plate tectonics, the earths out shell
- isnt a solid sheet of rock
- volcanoes and earthquakes are likely to occur
- around the ring of fire near tectonic plates
- mechanical and chemical weathering change the earths?
- crust
- one type of mechanical weathering is?
- when water freezes to ice in crack in the rocks.
- the three most common agents of erosion are?
- water, wind and glaciers
- both wearing and erosion are?>
- internal forces
- the physical structure of the earths rock is changed by?>
- mechanical weathering
- crust
- the earths thin rocky surface
- mantle
-
the thick layer of rock around the earths core
- core
- the center of the earth
- relief
- the difference in elevation between and landforms highest and lowest points
- plate tectonics
- a break in the earths crust
- loess
- windblown deposits of mineral rich dust and salt
- erosion
- the process that moves weathered materials
- moraine
- piles of rock and debris left by glaciers
- acid rain
- polluted water that can eat away at rocks
- weathering
- the process that breaks down rocks on the earths surface
- the corn belt
- formal region
- 10 degrees north
- latitiude
- boston metropolitan area
- functional region
- 26 degrees E
- longitude
- 40 degrees N, 80 degrees W
- absolute location