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Geo flashcards
geo final practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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