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Geo flashcards
geo final practice
Question | Answer |
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Peninsula | Piece of land with water on three sides |
Water covers what percentage of the earth's surface? | 70.78% |
Drought | long pierod of extreme dryness |
As eleavtion gets higher; temperature gets | altitude |
land covers about what percent of the earth's surface? | 29.22% |
renewable resources can be | grown again |
elevation | height above sea level |
northern and southern hemispheres have | opposite seasons |
the shortest day of the year occures in what seasons? | winter |
valleys, mountains, plains, are examples of | landforms |
largest ocean | pacific ocean |
what climates are hot | tropical |
hottest temperatures on earth found at what latitude line | equator |
what has the largest basin rain forest in the world | amazon rainforest |
coal and oil are examples of what fuels | fossil |
deforestation | widespead cutting of forests |
physical geography | covers the topics related to the surface of the earth |
human geograohy | the study of culture |
geographers | studys the earth's phiscal environment and habitat |
name three uses of geography | locating, mapping landmarks, mapping dangers |
regions | areas that share common characteristics |
landform | individual features of land |
GPS | GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM group of satellites |
GIS | GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEM special software |
environment | natral |
there are how many themes in geography | 5 |
globe | round reprentation of the earth |
the earth has how many hemispheres | 4 |
latitude lines are what lines that run what and what | parrellel lines that run E to W |
longitude lines are what lines that run what to what | imaginary lines that run N to S |
absolute location | exact location |
a map contains a | map key, scale bar, compass rose, and a title |
two examples of a general purpose map are | political and physical |
two examples of a spiecal purpose map are | climate and resource map |
graphs | summurizing and precenting viually |
charts | graphic ways of presenting information clearly |
pictograph | a graph in which small symbols reprecent quntities |
climograph | combination bar and line graph giving information about temperature and precipitation |
in a market economy what or who make the decisions about what to produce, but in a command economy the what or who does | people government |
geographers divide the world into what regions | culture |
people express their culture through the | arts |
what allows people to communicate | language |
ethnic group | share the same culture |
what helps people answer questions about life's meaning | relgion |
dictator | rules with absolute rule |
a market economy is based upon | free enterprize |
civilizations are highly developed | culture |
what is a local form of language | dialect |
culture | a way of life how people live |
an economic system sets forth rules on how goods and services are produced and | sold or exchanged |
cultural diffusion is the process of spreading what to other cultures | ideas |
largest continent | asia |
highest mountain | everest |
largest lake | Caspin Sea |
longest river | nile |
largest freshwater lake | superior |
smallest continent | alstralia |
milville's absolute location | 39 degrees N 75 degrees S |
millvile's relative location | SW of pennsylvania |