Vocabulary Quiz

What is the definition of Environment?

• The whole nation or country

• The zone, or area, near the equator

• Includes air, water, resources, the land, the plants, and the animals

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

What does National refer to?

• The whole nation or country

• One of the geographic themes

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

• A slow and lasting increase in the Earth's average temperature

What is the meaning of Regional?

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

• One of the geographic themes, defining parts of the earth that share common characteristics

• Large, powerful pacific storms

• Coral reefs built on a sunken volcano

Define Global warming.

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

• A slow and lasting increase in the Earth's average temperature

• Taking more than what you need

• The zone, or area, near the equator

What does Overfishing mean?

• Taking more than what you need

• Coral reefs built on a sunken volcano

• Large, powerful pacific storms

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

What is an Atoll?

• Coral reefs built on a sunken volcano

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

• A slow and lasting increase in the Earth's average temperature

• The zone, or area, near the equator

What is a Lagoon?

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

• Large, powerful pacific storms

• Taking more than what you need

Define Tropical cyclone.

• Large, powerful pacific storms

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

• Coral reefs built on a sunken volcano

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

What are the Tropics?

• The zone, or area, near the equator

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

• Taking more than what you need

• Coral reefs built on a sunken volcano

What is a Typhoon?

• What a tropical cyclone in the northwest Pacific Ocean is called

• A weather pattern that occurs when the water off the coast of South America gets much warmer than usual

• A shallow water between the reef and the island

• Large, powerful pacific storms