Vocabulary Concept Review

Question 1

Climate

Answer 1

Temperature change over longer longer extended periods of time

Question 2

Major characteristics of weather and climate

Answer 2

Precipitation and temperature

Question 3

Name a few factors that can affect temperature

Answer 3

Latitude, cloud cover, proximity to water, elevation

Question 4

Describe the latitudinal belts and their temperatures.

Answer 4

Low: Warmest
High: Coldest
Middle: Most susceptible to change

Question 5

Convection Air Warming

Answer 5

Air circulates and rises when heated

Question 6

Frontal Lifting

Answer 6

Air currents will become warmer after being affected by a front. Cold fronts produce heavier weather, whereas it is the opposite for the warm

Question 7

Orographic Warming

Answer 7

Air currents will collide with a topographic barrier, warming the air as it happens. Normally, the two sides of the barrier will be polar opposites in temperature

Question 8

How old is Earth?

Answer 8

4.6 Billion years old

Question 9

How long ago was the Permian continent?

Answer 9

225 Million years ago (Pangea)

Question 10

How long ago was the Triassic period?

Answer 10

200 Million years ago (Laurasia and Gondwanaland)

Question 11

How long ago was the Jurassic period?

Answer 11

135 million years ago

Question 12

How many years ago was the Cretaceous era?

Answer 12

65 Million

Question 13

Who founded the idea of tectonic plates?

Answer 13

Alfred Wegener in 1912

Question 14

Describe the Mid-Atlantic Ridges

Answer 14

Undersea mountain ranges that help attribute to the sea floor spreading theory

Question 15

Describe the Sea Floor Spreading Theory

Answer 15

Ocean floors are continuously moving apart from the center and sinking at the edges while new matter generates

Question 16

How thick are tectonic plates?

Answer 16

Approximately 50 miles

Question 17

How slow do tectonic plates move?

Answer 17

1-2 inches per year

Question 18

What moves the tectonic plates?

Answer 18

Radioactivity and heat from the mantle of the earth

Question 19

Describe divergent boundaries

Answer 19

Plates are being pulled apart, left and right in opposite directions

Question 20

Convergent boundaries

Answer 20

Two plates push together. The weaker submissive rock goes underneath the dominant rock. Sometimes, the rock moves upwards, in the case of the Himalayas

Question 21

Convergent boundaries

Answer 21

Two plates rub up against one another. An example would be the San Andreas fault

Question 22

Describe the Ring of Fire

Answer 22

Travels around the tectonic plate boundaries. Volcanic activity is prominent here.

Question 23

Define region

Answer 23

Regions are man made boundaries marked by providences.

Question 24

Lines on a grid system:

Answer 24

Man made invention. Points are ordered in latitude then longitude.

Question 25

Latitude

Answer 25

Categorized in parallels north and south of the equator. 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 90.

Question 26

How to determine latitude:

Answer 26

Degrees from the North Star to the horizon

Question 27

Prime Meridian

Answer 27

The zero of longitude.

Question 28

The meridian opposite of the Greenwich meridian is

Answer 28

The international date line

Question 29

Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

Answer 29

Northern and southern most parallels where the sun is still shining.

Question 30

Map

Answer 30

Flat generalized view of an area, seen from above, reduced in size.

Question 31

Scale

Answer 31

Ratio of ground units to map units

Question 32

The larger the scale of the map,

Answer 32

The more detailed you become

Question 33

Projection

Answer 33

Turning the surface of the earth into a flat map

Question 34

Every _______ has a _________

Answer 34

Projection, distortion

Question 35

G.I.S.

Answer 35

A combination of spatial and attribute data, often in layers such as soil, groundcover, floods, etc.

Question 36

Define continent

Answer 36

One continuous landmass undivided by water.

Question 37

Weather

Answer 37

Day to day temperature change