Our Amazing Earth - Physical Geography Terms
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This game reviews terms introduced in World Geography covering Basic Physical Geography Terms
Topics of this game:
- Physical features of the earth including land, water, climate, vegetation, and natural resources
- Studies how and where people live, their foods, cultures, languages, religions, and governments
- Found at the center of the earth
- First layer of the earth including the ocean
- layer of rock 1800 miles thick with consistency of "cherry goo"
- Two plates coming together causing one to fold under the other
- Two plates moving apart from each other leaving a deep gap between them
- Two plates move slide side by side (horizontally)
- Ancient supercontinent that incorporated all of today's continents into one large land mass
- The gases that surround the earth
- The water at the earth's surface
- The outer layer of solid earth that we live on
- Made up of all the earth's living organisms
- Describes the transformation of water at different stages from evaporation through precipitation
- water falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow, hail, etc.
- Water held in lakes above ground or below ground in reservoirs.
- Another term for "cloud building
- Water from the oceans or lakes turns into water vapor in the air
- Imaginary line dividing the world into northern and southern hemispheres
- Two seasons (wet and dry) between 23.5 degrees North Latitude and 23.5 degrees South latitude
- Between 23.5 and 66.5 Degrees Norh/South with four seasons - Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
- Above 66,.5 degrees North Latitude Cold, polar two seasons - polar day and polar night
- Located below 66.5 degrees south latitude with two seasons - polar day and polar night
- Dangerous and uncontrollable events that occur within nature (tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, etc)
