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6th Grade
Unit 2: Physical Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which theme of geography describes the special human and/or physical features of a location that make it different? | Place |
| Which theme describes areas that share common characteristics such as climate or vegetation? | Region |
| What are physical places? | Places made by nature like landforms. |
| What do you call shapes on the earth's surface? | Landforms |
| What is the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces? | Weathering |
| What is the movement of sediment from one location to another? | Erosion |
| What is the largest mountain chain in South America? | Andes Mts. |
| What is the largest mountain chain in North America? | Rocky Mts. |
| The Rio Grande forms the border between what two countries? | USA and Mexico |
| The Hudson Bay is the biggest bay in what North American country? | Canada |
| Central America is one of these because it is a narrow strip of land joining two larger sections of land. | Isthmus |
| Michigan is this type of landform. | Peninsula |
| What is an archipelago? | Chain of islands |
| The collision of these is how huge mountains are created. | continental plates |
| This theme of geography explains where places are. | location |
| This type of location tells where something exactly is located. | Absolute |
| This type of location gives a general description of where something is. | Relative |
| Name the cardinal directions. | north, south, east, west |
| These imaginary lines make up the global grid. | latitude and longitude |
| Latitude and longitude lines make up this. | global grid |
| What is the zero line of longitude called? | Prime Meridian |
| What is the zero line of latitude called? | Equator |
| Name the two polar regions of latitude | Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle or North and South Poles |
| Between what two latitude lines would you find the tropical regions of the world? | Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn |
| This type of map shows a special topic like climate or population. | Thematic map |
| This type of map shows land elevation and landforms | Physical map |
| Name two forces found below earth's surface. | Underwater volcanoes, earthquakes, sliding plates |
| What is the theory that Earth's surface is divided into more the 12 slow moving plates? | Plate tectonics |
| What are the large landmasses that are part of Earth's crust? | continents |
| Name two forces above Earth's surface. | Weathering, erosion, changes in temperature, natural hazards like storms |
| What often occurs along faults where there are breaks in the Earth's crust where movement occurs? | Earthquakes |
| What do you call the height of land above sea level? | Elevation |
| This landform is the best farming region in the USA. | Great Plains |
| This large desert is found in northern Africa. | Sahara Desert |
| This famous landform is spread across much of northeast South America and is home to the largest river in the Western Hemisphere. | Amazon Basin or Amazon Rainforest |
| What do you call high, flat land rising steeply above other land. | Plateau |
| What do you dry land, lacking water? | drought |
| What are some major effects of a natural disaster? | Loss of life, disease, health problems, loss of family, loss of home, job displacement, etc. |
| What happens to temperature as you go higher up in elevation on a mountain? | It gets colder at the top. |
| What do you call a vast open flat area covered with natural grasses? | Grassland |
| What do you call a climate with bitter cold winters, short cool summers found near Greenland and Antarctica? | Polar |
| What is a region's average weather conditions over a long period of time? | Climate |
| What do you call the plants that grow in a region? | vegetation |
| What do you call moderate to mild climates that tend to have two to four seasons like Michigan? | Temperate |
| What is a mountain climate where the temperature and precipitation changes as you go up in elevation? | Highlands climate |
| This is the most arid climate on Earth where very little precipitation falls and scrub and cacti are commonly found. | Dry or desert climate |
| This is the hottest and wettest climate on Earth near the equator and home to many rainforests and beautiful beaches. | Tropical climate |
| What does arid mean? | dry |
| This is the largest river in South America. | Amazon |
| What is the large sea that borders eastern Mexico and western Florida and contains several islands such as Cuba and Jamaica? | Caribbean Sea |
| When natural processes are unpredictable and have a negative effect on the environment. | natural hazard |
| When natural hazards become so severe the human consequences are extreme and widespread. | natural disaster |
| The natural forces found above and below the Earth's surface that change physical features. | physical processes |
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