Coach Maciel's World Geography Semester Exam

What is Geography?

• The study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other

• Study of plants

• Study of humans

a large, powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters

• Earth Quake

• Typhoon

• Hurricane

• Tornado

What are the five themes of geography?

• Study of Plants

• Study of animals

• Location, place, region, movements, and human-environment interactions

• Solar System

What two ways can a location be described as?

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Both

What is relative location ?

• A place's relation compared to other places

• Longitude

• Location

• Far from

What is absolute location ?

• A place's position on the globe

  The exact location

• Around a place

• Not exactly

What are different physical characteristics of a place?

• Animals

• Plants

• Landforms, ecosystems, climate, the terrain, etc.

• seas,oceans,rivers

What is a region?

• Landforms

• Oceans

• A group of places with at least one common characteristic;

• Rocks

What are the earth's layers?

The center of the earth that consists of very hot metal, mainly iron mixed with nickel

• Mantle

• Earth

• Core

• Crust