Limestone Features, Limestone, Weather And Climate, Map Types.
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| show | Dot Maps, Chloropeth Maps, Flowline Maps
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| show | Tables, GIS, Charts, Graphs, Averages, Maps
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| show | A table is a statistical diagram with columns, rows, or heading to present information
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| show | Ranking is the process of arranging data in order, usually according to the size and the quantity with the highest value stated first
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| Name three types of graphs. | show 🗑
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| Give the definition and advantage of a dot map | show 🗑
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| Name the 9 islands in the greater antillies | show 🗑
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| Give the definition and advantage of a chloropeth map | show 🗑
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| show | Shows the volume of people moving from one area to another and the advantage is it shows where people are moving to and where they coming from and which areas are mostly populated
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| What is the difference between weather and climate? | show 🗑
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| Name the 7 elements of weather | show 🗑
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| show | A combination of winds, air pressure, humidity and rainfall which develops in parts of the atmosphere
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| Name 5 weather systems of the caribbean | show 🗑
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| Where is the lesser Antilles? | show 🗑
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| show | Rugged, mountainous islands with steep relief and old and new volcanic landforms
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| show | Convergent, Divergent and Transform
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| Where do violent earthquakes occur? | show 🗑
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| What do the lesser Antilles countries have in common? | show 🗑
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| show | Limestone
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| why are Belize and Guyana considered caribbean countries? | show 🗑
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| What is the Caribbean? | show 🗑
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| show | a sub oceanic basin of the western Atlantic ocean situated north of the equator in the western hemisphere
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| What are convection currents? | show 🗑
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| show | When plates converge
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| What is the theory of plate tectonic? | show 🗑
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| what is the Caribbean plate? | show 🗑
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| show | seventy percent
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| show | Sedimentary, Metamorphic And Igneous
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| show | All continents were joined together and formed one super continent called Pangaea. Then later split into two landmasses, Laurasia and Gondwanaland and later more
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| What measures the following: Rainfall, Sunshine, Wind, Air Pressure, Humidity, Cloud Cover, Temerature | show 🗑
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| What is a cavern ? | show 🗑
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| show | Long, thin and slender cave pinnacles of limestone hanging from the roof of a cave and growing downwards
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| show | Shorter, thicker accumulations of calcite growing upwards from the cave floor
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| what is formed when a stalagmite and stalactite is joined ? | show 🗑
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| show | Sedimentary that contains calcite
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| show | Many Marine organisms make shells and other hard body parts out of calcium carbonate. When the organism dies, their hard body parts settle to the bottom of the ocean floor. Through time, they accumulate into great thickness of calcite mud which hardens.
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| show | Landscapes that have distinct limestone features developed after the process of caronation
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| show | - Chemical Composition
- Structure
- Permeability
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| What is calcite? | show 🗑
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| show | Sinkholes, Gorges, Poljes, Dolines, Limestone Pavement, Cockpit And Conical Hills, Tower Karst and Dry Valley
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| What is the carbonation process? | show 🗑
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| show | after a massive super eruptions and it can turn into a crater lake
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| Where do surface water percolates? | show 🗑
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| What is a dyke? | show 🗑
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| show | Erosion and Weathering
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| What are extrusive volcanic features? | show 🗑
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| What are sinkholes? | show 🗑
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| Where does the surface river reappears? | show 🗑
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| show | funnel shaped depressions formed by collapse of rock beneath the surface
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| How do poljes occur? | show 🗑
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| What are gorges? | show 🗑
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| How are fumroles steam created? | show 🗑
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| show | by heat, water and a constricted path
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| show | thermal areas produced by water heated underground and pushed to the surface of the earth by pressure
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| show | large dome shaped resevoirs of magma located deep within the earth's crust
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| show | smaller reservoir of magma with an arch shaped structure that lies nearer to the earth's surface
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| What is sill? | show 🗑
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| show | Star shaped depressions where erosion causes joints to meet
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| Name the limestone features below ground. | show 🗑
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| What are underground streams? | show 🗑
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| How are caves developed? | show 🗑
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| How is tsunami formed? | show 🗑
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| what does magma do when it cannot reach the surface? | show 🗑
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| what are composite? | show 🗑
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| what are sheilds? | show 🗑
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| show | huge depression in the earth's crust that is surrounded by a rim of higher relief
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| show | Igneous or Plutonic
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| show | Air is forced to rise creating low pressure area, winds rush inward is heated and rises. condensation occurs and cumulonimbus clouds form creating heavy tropical rainfall.
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| show | Tropical Cyclone
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| show | large mass of sinking air going anticyclone. low humidity with light breeze and moderate temperature
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| show | A boundary between cold and dry continental air and warm and moist tropical air. The warm air from tropics rises and cold air sink from north america. it forms rain and affects the northern caribbean and bring cold temperatures
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| show | Inter tropical convergance zone = long area of low pressure lying east to west across equatorial regoin
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| show | A weak low pressure large scale weather system that dont have a closed centre. It can develop into a hurricane and common in the caribbean.
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| Name the three types of scales | show 🗑
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| What are isobars? | show 🗑
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| Name the two types of measurements. | show 🗑
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| What are contours? | show 🗑
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| What is contour interval? | show 🗑
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| show | Inward movement of people from one country to another
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| What is Emigration? | show 🗑
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| show | Movement of people from one place to another for a long period of time
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| show | Closed circulation system storm where the NE trades and SE trades meet.
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