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Geography Chap 1-4
Question | Answer |
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Absolute Location | The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found |
Relative Location | Describes a place in comparison to other places around it |
Place | Physical features and cultural characteristics of a location |
Region | An area of the earths surface with similar characteristics |
Movement | The way people goods and ideas move from place to place |
Interaction man/enviroment | How humans interact with their enviroment |
Cartographer | Mapmaker |
Map Projection | A way of drawing the earths surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on a flat paper |
Landsat | A series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above earth |
Topographic Map | A representation of natural and man made features of the earth |
Biosphere | The part of the earth where the plants and animals live |
Cataract | A step like series of waterfalls |
Drainage Basin | An area drained by a major river and its tributes |
Epicenter | The point directly above the focus on the earths surface |
Fault | Fracture in the earths crust |
Humus | Organic material |
Hydrologic Cycle | The continous circulation of water between the atmosphere in the oceans and the earth |
Lava | Magma that has reached the earths surface |
Loess | Windblown silt and clay sediment that produce very fertile soil |
Moraine | A ridge or hill of rock carried and finally deposited by a glacier |
Richter Scale | A way to measure information collected by seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake |
Ring of Fire | The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim |
Sediment | small pieces of rock produced by weathering process |
Seismograph | A device that measures the size of the waves created by an earthquake |
Tectonic Plates | An enormous moving shelf that forms the earths crust |
Topography | The combined characteristics of landforms and their distributions in a region |
Rain Shadow | The land on the leeward side of hills or mountains that gets little rain from the descending dry air |
Hurricane | A storm that forms over warm tropical ocean waters |