Geography 9 weeks Exam

Study of the earth

• Civics

• Geography

• World History

individual features of the land

• elevation

• plate tectonics

• landforms

Global Positioning System satellites used to tell exact location on Earth

• UPS

• GPS

• IP Address

unpredictable changes in the air that take place over a short period of time

• weather

• global warming

• climate

usual predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time

• climate

• weather

• global warming

low latitude region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

• sea level

• tropics

• elevation

long period of extreme dryness

• flooding

• famine

• drought

moving streams of water in the world's oceans

• current

• bay

• strait

build up of certain gases in the atmosphere that like a greenhouse hold more of the sun's warmth

• greenhouse effect

• heat wave

• drought

shows boundaries, or borders of countries on a map

• physical map

• political map

• globe