Cultural Geography 1

2. lines Lines of separate colors on a relief map to indicate all points on a map that have the same altitude.
4. The earth’s trip around the sun once a year.
6. Cycle The process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
7. The degenerative process that contributes to the breaking up and alteration of rock materials.
9. Global positioning system of satellites.
10. A crack in the earth’s surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions.
12. All of the water that exists on or around the earth.
13. Part of a map that displays the meaning of the symbols on the map.
15. Sensing Geographic information gathered by aircraft or satellites.
17. The view that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another.
18. Geographic information system technology used to make modern maps.
20. The layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
21. The area of solid matter on the surface of the earth.

1. The natural breakdown and removal of materials on the earth’s surface.
2. Drift The idea that the continents were once one landmass but at some point drifted apart.
3. A process of heat transfer that occurs in the mantle when particles carry thermal energy as they move from one place to another.
5. Consists of all the different areas on the earth where life can exist.
8. 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.
11. rose A symbol that displays the orientation of a map
14. Point in time twice each year when the length of day and night are approximately equal all over the planet.
15. Movement of the earth on its axis 360 degrees every twenty-four hours.
16. Calibrated line that indicates distance on a map.
19. Event when the sun reaches its greatest angular distance from the equator twice each year.