Physical and Regional Geography Vocab

state of the atmosphere, describing the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy

• Global Warming

• weather

• Greenhouse Effect

• arid

having little or no rain, too dry or barren to support vegetation

• arid

• acid rain

• desert

• global warming

trapping of the sun's warmth in the planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere and absorb support vegetation

• weather

• global warming

• greenhouse effect

• scorching temperatures

a theory explaining the structure of the Earth's crust and many associated phenomena as the plates moving slowly over underlying mantle. At one time all the continents were said to be connected but split into 7 continents from this.

• push factor

• plate tectonics

• deforestation

• acid rain

something that encourages an individual to migrate away from a certain place

• deforestation

• push factor

• pull factor

• plateau

a flat, elevated land form that rises above a surrounding area

• mountain

• plain

• plateau

• desert

purposely clearing forested land (cutting down many trees to clear land)

• Christmas tree farms

• population

• cultivation

• deforestation

any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms.

• acid rain

• acid snow

• arid rain

• deforestation

the number of people per unit of area (per square kilometer, mile)

• pull factor

• population density

• unpopulated regions

• people

Greenhouse effect

• trapping water into the atmosphere

• trapping of the sun's warmth in the planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun

• having little or no rain

• when carbon dioxide and other air pollutants collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight