World Geo Ch 1-3
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| What are the branches of Geography? | Physical and Human | Physical Geography = the study of the world's physical features- it's land forms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
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| Identify Human-Environment Interaction Geography | Human-Environment Interaction Geography = an area's environment that includes it's land, water, climate, plants, and animals. |
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| What are the 5 themes of Geography? | Human-environment Interaction, Movement, Place, Location, and Region. |
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| Name all 7 continents. | Africa, South and North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Antarctica |
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| Name 4 main oceans. | Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic. |
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| Identify Movement. | Movement= people and animals move to different places for a more pleasant living space. |
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| Identify Place | Place = place is simular to location but does not tell where an area is but it tells the area of a landscape. |
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| Identify Location | Location = A description of where something or someone is (ex) Relative and Absolute location. |
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| Identify (a) Region (s). | Regions = are areas that share common characteristics. |
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| What is the difference between longitude and latitude? | Latitude wraps around the earth going from east to west, and Longitude goes up and down from north to south. |
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| What is the equator? | The equator is an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North and South Poles. |
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| What is the Prime Meridian? | The Prime Meridian is an imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England. It represents 0 degrees longitude. |
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| What four things affect the amount of solar energy the Earth gets? | Earth's rotation, Revolution, tilt, and latitude. |
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| When do the seasons begin? | June 21, September 22, March 21, and December 21. |
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| How much of the Earth's water is fresh? | 3 percent |
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| What is precipitation? | Precipitation is water that falls to Earth's surface as rain,snow sleet or hail. |
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| What is evaporation? | Evaporation is when the water disolves into the air. |
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| what is condensation? | Condensation is when the water is being formed into hail, snow, sleet or rain in the clouds. |
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| What is runoff? | Runoff is excess precipitation that flows over land into rivers, streams, and oceans. |
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| What is the theory of plate tectonics? | Pangea. |
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| What happens when the plates slide, collide, and separate? | Contenital drift. |
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| What is the difference between weather and climate? | Weather is = changes in the air for a given place and time. climate is= a regions average conditions over a long period. |
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| How do ocean currents and prevailing winds help regulate temperature? | They regulate the earth's tempeture by blowing different temparature kinds of wind around in an organized way. |
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| What is a rain shadow? | Most of the moisture in the ocean air falls on the mountains facing the wind. Little moisture remains to fall on the other side, creating a rain shadow. |
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| What are the 5 major climate zones? | Tropical, temperate, polar, dry, and highland. |
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| What 5 factors affect climate? | Wind, water, Latitude, Elevation, and sun |
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| What is the difference between an environment, habitat and an ecosystem? | Environment= your surroundings. An Ecosystem= a group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival and the environment in which they live. A habitat= is a place where plants and/or animals live. |
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| How is soil layered? | First there is Top Soil then, there is subsoil, after that is broken rock, and finally there is solid rock. |
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| What causes desertification? | The spread of desertlike conditions. |
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| What is the differnece between absolute and relative location? | One is specific one is some what specific | Absolute = very specific, exact, (ex) locker # Relative = less exact; not as specific (ex) the area or location of the locker bay or classroom.
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