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Stack #349524
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does geography mean? | The writings of the earth. |
| What sphere is the upper portion of the earths crust? | Lithosphere |
| What is the term used to describe the earths shape? | Geoid. |
| Lines of parallel run____to___ | East to west. |
| 66 1/2 north | arctic circle |
| 23 1/2 north | tropic of cancer |
| Lines of longitude measure from___to___ | 0 to 180 dgrees |
| Shows actal distance on earth as represented by a give linear unit on map | a scale |
| Relatively small scale of earths surface | large scale map |
| Relatively large area of earths surface | small scale map |
| Lines that have equal elevation | contour lines |
| Multicolored, distortion free images | Orthophoto maps |
| Landscape map put out by the U.S geological survey | topographic map |
| Tallest arrow labeled withstar or large N | true north |
| Difference between true north and magnetic north | Declination |
| Legal land referencing system | Public land survey system |
| Each square on a public and survey system is _ square miles | 36 |
| Has billions of galaxies | Universe |
| Our galaxy | Milky Way |
| Approx. age of earth | 4.6 billion years |
| Farthest that earth is from sun, July 4th | Aphelion |
| Closest that earth is to sun, Jan 3rd | Perihelion |
| .400 micrometers to .710 micrometers | visible light |
| tilt of earths axis | 23 1/2 from a perpendicular lineof eclliptic |
| axis tilted away from sun. Arctic has 24 hrs of day, Antarctic has 24hrs of night. | Winter solstice |
| Earth is not tilted toward or away from sun. Subsolar point at equator. 12 hr day and night everywhere | spring equinox |
| Tilted towards sun. Subsolar point tropic of cancer.Arctic has 24 hrs of night.Antarctic 24 hrs of day. | Summer solstice |
| Not tilted towards or away from sun. 12 hr day and night everywhere. | fall equinox. |
| Vertical pattern structure we live in. | Troposphere |
| Gas that makes up 78% of atmosphere | nitrogen |
| the 2 broad regions of the atmospheric profile. | Heterosphere and Homosphere. |
| lat and long of port huron. | 43 north 82 west |
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