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Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parallels | latitude lines run east to west |
| Comet | revolve around in anon circular way around the sun |
| Cartographer | people who make maps |
| Compass Rose | the thing on the map that tells what direction is it on the map |
| Mantle | made of thick very hot liquid rock always in motion |
| Subduction | when two plates run into each other and one rises up at very steep angle |
| Sediment | the material picked up by erosion |
| Weathering | breaking down of rocks |
| Moraines | where the glaciers stop and make piles of material |
| Mechanical Weathering | breaking apart rock / does not really change the rock just makes it smaller |
| Chemical Weathering | changes the material /fire/rust |
| Erosion | breaking down materials |
| Frost Wedging | can break rocks apart when water freezes around it |
| Loess | great soil - comes |
| Dunes | piles of sand created by wind |
| Delta | an area built up by sediment dropped by a river /usually fan shaped |
| Sandhills | sand dunes covered with plant live |
| Accretion | when one plate sinks below the other and it can create island and in the ocean |
| Rift Valley | when two plates separate |
| Alluvial Plains | areas around flooded rivers /usually best place to farm |
| Aquifer | underground water |
| Meridians | longitude lines north pole to south pole |
| Hydrosphere | the water on the earth |
| Plates | parts of the earth's crust that moves |
| Equator | the middle line / 0 degrees latitude |
| Prime Meridian | the starting spot for longitude |
| Absolute Location | the address the exact location |
| Inner Core | solid nickel and iron |
| Atmosphere | air 78 percent is one gas |
| Earthquake | when the plates move fast |
| Biosphere | all living things on earth |
| Faults | when the plates run into each other they can cause cracks and break apart. |
| Folds | when plates run into each other and on is pushed up |
| Tropic of Cancer | A line 23 and a half degrees north latitude |
| Tropic of Capricorn | A line 23 and a half degrees south latitude |
| Lithosphere | the ground |
| Pangaea | the land before it broke apart in the continental drift |
| Outer Core | next layer after inner core/ it is a little bit bigger and it is liquid |
| Crust | the top layer of the earth |
| Region | a place with common characteristics |
| What is geography? | the study of earth |
| Map projections | Always wrong the distance, shape, sizes |
| Oceans cover how much of the earth? | 70 % of the world |
| What types of erosion exist? | |
| Know the planets in order | Mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, and pluto |
| Know the continents | Asia, africa, north america, south america, antarctica, europe |
| Know the oceans | atlantic, pacific, artic, indian, southern |
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