Cultural Geography 1

3. A crack in the earth’s surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions.
7. The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
9. The earth’s trip around the sun once a year.
11. All of the water that exists on or around the earth.
13. Event when the sun reaches its greatest angular distance from the equator twice each year.
14. Calibrated line that indicates distance on a map.
15. Global positioning system of satellites.
17. The degenerative process that contributes to the breaking up and alteration of rock materials.
18. A process of heat transfer that occurs in the mantle when particles carry thermal energy as they move from one place to another.

1. Geographic information system technology used to make modern maps.
2. The tectonic process by which the relatively thin and dense oceanic crust slowly slides down and under the more massive but less dense continental crust.
4. Consists of all the different areas on the earth where life can exist.
5. The view that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another.
6. Part of a map that displays the meaning of the symbols on the map.
8. The natural breakdown and removal of materials on the earth’s surface.
10. The area of solid matter on the surface of the earth.
12. Point in time twice each year when the length of day and night are approximately equal all over the planet.
16. Movement of the earth on its axis 360 degrees every twenty-four hours.