Posted: March 28th, 2023
Unit 2: Physical Geography
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Which theme of geography describes the special human and/or physical features of a location that make it different?
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Place
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Which theme describes areas that share common characteristics such as climate or vegetation?
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Region
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What are the two types of place?
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Human and Physical
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What are physical places?
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Places made by nature like landforms.
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What are human places?
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Places made by humans like schools, malls and cities.
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What do you call shapes on the earth's surface?
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Landforms
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What is the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces?
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Weathering
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What is the movement of sediment from one location to another?
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Erosion
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What types of landforms do most people choose to live?
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Lakes, rivers and plains
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What is the largest mountain chain in South America?
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Andes Mts.
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What is the largest mountain chain in North America?
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Rocky Mts.
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The Rio Grande forms the border between what two countries?
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USA and Mexico
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The Hudson Bay is the biggest bay in what North American country?
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Canada
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Central America is one of these because it is a narrow strip of land joining two larger sections of land.
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Isthmus
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Michigan is this type of landform.
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Peninsula
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What is an archipelago?
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Chain of islands
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Where in the world could you find an archipelago?
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Hawaii, Caribbean Islands, Philippines, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, Bahamas
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The collision of these is how huge mountains are created.
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continental plates
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This theme of geography explains where places are.
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location
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This type of location tells where something exactly is located.
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Absolute
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This type of location gives a general description of where something is.
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Relative
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Name the cardinal directions.
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north, south, east, west
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These imaginary lines make up the global grid.
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latitude and longitude
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Latitude and longitude lines make up this.
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global grid
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What is the zero line of longitude called?
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Prime Meridian
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What is the zero line of latitude called?
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Equator
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Name the two polar regions of latitude
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Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle or North and South Poles
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Between what two latitude lines would you find the tropical regions of the world?
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Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
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Name the three types of maps
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Political, physical and thematic
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This type of map shows a special topic like climate or population.
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Thematic map
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This type of map shows land elevation and landforms
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Physical map
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This type of map shows borders of continents, countries, states and important cities.
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Political map
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Name two forces found below earth's surface.
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Underwater volcanoes, earthquakes, sliding plates
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What is the theory that Earth's surface is divided into more the 12 slow moving plates?
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Plate tectonics
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What are the large landmasses that are part of Earth's crust?
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continents
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Name two forces on Earth's surface.
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Weathering, erosion, changes in temperature, natural hazards like storms
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How do landforms influence life?
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Jobs, where people settle, food choices, activity choices
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What often occurs along faults where there are breaks in the Earth's crust where movement occurs?
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Earthquakes
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What is a challenge of living near mountains?
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Mudslide, avalanche, difficult to build, changing temperatures by elevation
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What is an opportunity of living near mountains?
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Beautiful scenery, mining, natural resources
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What is a challenge of living near a river?
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Flooding, polluted water, dangerous currents
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What is an opportunity of living near a river?
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Transportation, boating, fishing, swimming
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What do you call the height of land above sea level?
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Elevation
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This landform is the best farming region in the USA.
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Great Plains
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This large desert is found in northern Africa.
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Sahara Desert
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This famous landform is spread across much of northeast South America and is home to the largest river in the Western Hemisphere.
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Amazon Basin or Amazon Rainforest
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What do you call high, flat land rising steeply above other land.
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Plateau
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What do you dry land, lacking water?
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drought
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Why are developing nations more vulnerable to natural disasters?
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The countries are poorer and tend to lack infrastructure-roads, buildings,
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What are some major effects of a natural disaster?
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Loss of life, disease, health problems, loss of family, loss of home, job displacement, etc.
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What happens to temperature as you go higher up in elevation on a mountain?
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It gets colder at the top.
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What do you call a vast open flat area covered with natural grasses?
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Grassland
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What do you call a climate with bitter cold winters, short cool summers found near Greenland and Antarctica?
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Polar
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What is a region's average weather conditions over a long period of time?
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Climate
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What do you call the plants that grow in a region?
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vegetation
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What do you call moderate to mild climates that tend to have two to four seasons like Michigan?
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Temperate
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What is any place where plants and animals depend upon each other and their environment for survival?
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ecosystem
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What is a mountain climate where the temperature and precipitation changes as you go up in elevation?
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Highlands climate
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This is the most arid climate on Earth where very little precipitation falls and scrub and cacti are commonly found.
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Dry or desert climate
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This is the hottest and wettest climate on Earth near the equator and home to many rainforests and beautiful beaches.
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Tropical climate
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What does arid mean?
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dry
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This is the largest river in South America.
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Amazon
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What is the large sea that borders eastern Mexico and western Florida and contains several islands such as Cuba and Jamaica?
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Caribbean Sea
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This theme of geography asks the question Where is it?
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Location
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