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Cody 7th Gr. SS
Unit 1 Test
Question | Answer |
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What are individual features of land, like mountains and valleys called? | Landforms |
What two characteristics do geographers study when viewing a place? | Physical and Human Characteristics |
What is an area that shares common characteristics called? | Region |
What is a group of satellites traveling around the earth that give specific locations of places called? | Global Positioning System (GPS) |
What are the 4 uses of geography? | Government leaders use it for planning, the use geography to make decisions, manage resouces. |
Each planet travels along its own path, or ______, around the sun. | Orbit |
What type of planets are very huge, mostly composed of gas, spin rapidly, and have many moons? | Jupiter-like planets |
When the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, the NOrthern Hemisphere is experiencing what season? | Winter |
What is the layer of rock that surrounds earth's core? | Mantle |
What are huge slabs of rock that move in the earth's crust called? | Plates |
What is the theory that scientists believe the earth used to be one land mass? | Plate Techtonics |
What is the process of breaking surface rock into boulders, gravel, sand, and soil called? | Weathering |
What are the 2 reasons people settle on all different types of landforms. | Climate and availabilty of resources |
What % of earth is made up of water, mostly salt water? | 70 |
What term refers to the unpredictable changes in air that takes place over a short period of time? | weather |
Scientists perdict gases are trapping warm air frome scaping into the atmosphere, known as ____. | Greenhouse Effect |
In Tropical Rain Forest climates, what is the top layer of the forest called? | Canopy |
What is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs? | Culture |
You do what your parents did in this type of economy... | Tradition |
What is the process of spreading knowledge and skills to other cultures called? | Cultural Diffusion |