Map Work Terms Getting Around The Earth Natural Phenomenon
100
What are North and South America?
These two continents lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
100
What is geography?
This is the study of where people, places, and thing are located and how they relate.
100
What is relative location?
"I sit two seats to the left of Alivia" is an example of this form of location. (daily double! maximum wager of 1000)
100
What is the core?
The center of the earth is called this.
100
What is New Madrid, Missouri?
This is the location of the early 19th-century earthquake that made the Mississippi run backwards and rang church bells in Philadelphia.
200
What is Asia?
This is the largest continent.
200
What is culture?
The learned behavior of people, including their belief systems, languages, and governments is called this.
200
What are north and south?
Longitude runs these two directions.
200
What is the mantle?
This layer of the earth is between the crust and the core.
200
What is (extremely hot parts of) the mantle?
Tectonic plate boundaries are at the root of tsunamis, earthquake, and volcanic eruptions; these plates float, grind, and collide on what?
300
What is the Arctic Ocean?
This ocean borders all major oceans except the Indian Ocean.
300
What is ranging?
The three words combined to form "sonar" are sound, navigation, and this word.
300
What are Europe, Africa, and Antarctica?
The prime meridian runs through three continents. Name two.
300
What is the atmosphere?
This is layer of air and water above the surface of the earth.
300
What is the Dirty Thirties?
The Dust Bowl ravaged the plains states in the 1930s due to drought, mechanization of agriculture, and the destruction of native species; what other term is used to refer to the Dust Bowl?
400
What is Iceland?
This country lies on the divergent boundary of the North American and Eurasian plates.
400
What is character of a place?
This is a place's physical and human characteristics.
400
What is absolute location?
37 degrees, 5 minutes, 3 seconds north, 94 degrees, 30 minutes, 47 seconds West is this type of location.
400
What is 70%?
Earth's surface is at least this percent water.
400
What are pollutants (in the air)?
Water vapor combining with this leads to chemical weathering. (daily double! maximum wager of 1000!)
500
What is Pangea?
German geographer and theoritician Alfred Wegener developed the hypothesis that all continents were once part of a "supercontinent" named this.
500
What is location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?
Name at least four of geography's five themes.
500
What is a perceptual region?
A region that is defined by people's feelings and attitudes is this type of region.
500
What is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?
This is the name of the man-made, 40,000 ft deep hole in eastern Russia.
500
What are moraines?
These are ridge-like piles of rock and debris left behind by glaciers.






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