Question | Answer |
dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres | Columbian Exchange |
scientific theory that describes the large-scale motions of Earth's lithosphere | Plate Tectonic Theory |
The spread of heat through the movement of a liquid substance, as hotter liquid rises to the top and cooler liquid sinks to the bottom | Convection |
a zone of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific. | Ring of Fire |
The wearing down of rocks at the Earth's surface by the actions of wind, water, ice, and living organisms. | Weathering |
The process by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away. | Erosion |
All the earth's land | Lithosphere |
all the earth's air | Atmosphere |
all the earth's water | hydrosphere |
all the earth's living organisms. | biosphere |
elevation, latitude, wind systems and ocean currents, mountain barriers influences. | 5 factors that effect climate |
the spread of ideas from one culture to another. | cultural diffusion |
growing just enough food to feed immediate family. | subsistance agriculture |
large scale farming | commercial agriculture |
sell of goods where everything is made by hand. | cottage industry |
The coming together, in recent decades, of all parts of the world into a single global economy. | globalization |
when a company hires other companies to perform some of it jobs | outsourcing |
a region formed when several countries join together and agree to eliminate tariffs. | free trade zone |
films, television programs, pop music and art, jeans and casual clothing styles, them parks, novels and magazines, fast foods, and american-based computer websites are spreading to other continents | american pop culture |
evaperation, condensation, precipitation. | Water cycle |
regular rise and fall of the ocean caused by gravitational pull of the moon. | Tides |
distinct geographic regions with their own particular types of plant and animal life. | Biomes |
trees change colors, and have broad leafs. | Deceiduous |
needle leaf tree, that stays green year round. | Coniferus |
resources such as trees that can renew themselves after a period of time. | Renewable resources |
Resources such as oil, and water that once they are gone can never be replaced. | Non Renewable resources |
Prevents heat from escaping into space, and leads to rising temperature on Earth. | Greenhouse effect |