Exam 1

Question 1

What is Cartography?

Answer 1

The making or designing of maps

Question 2

Where is the Dead Sea?

Answer 2

Jordan, Israel

Question 3

Where is Mt. Everest?

Answer 3

In the Himalaya Mtn Range, between Nepal and China

Question 4

How many continents are there?

Answer 4

7 - Africa, N.A. South America, Australia, Antarctica, Eurasia

Question 5

What is map scale?

Answer 5

relationship between distance on a map and distance on the ground

Question 6

What is Latitude?

Answer 6

Horizontal Lines, East/West

Question 7

What is Longitude?

Answer 7

Vertical Lines, North/South

Question 8

List the Geographers

Answer 8

Herodotus, Aristotle, Eratosthenesis, Ptolemy

Question 9

Latitude and Longitude on of UNI

Answer 9

42 N, 92 W

Question 10

What is 23.5 N?

Answer 10

Tropic of Cancer

Question 11

What 23.5 S?

Answer 11

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 12

What is at 66.5 N?

Answer 12

Arctic Circle

Question 13

What is at 66.5 S?

Answer 13

Antarctic Circle

Question 14

What are the spheres of the Earth?

Answer 14

Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Lithospshere
Cryrosphere
Biosphere

Question 15

What is electromagnetic energy?

Answer 15

Radiant Energy that travels in waves

Question 16

What is wavelength

Answer 16

The distance between crests

Question 17

What waves make up the solar system

Answer 17

Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infared

Question 18

What are the most frequent waves ammited by the Earth and Sun

Answer 18

Earth - Longwave
Sun - Shortwave

Question 19

4 Important Dates

Answer 19

December 21st
June 21st
September 21st
March 21st

Question 20

What is Aphelion/Perihelion

Answer 20

Aphelion: Earth is fathers away
Perhilion: Earth closest to the sun

Question 21

What is Insolation?

Answer 21

Amount of solar radiation earth receives

Question 22

What happens to 100 units of solar radiation as is passes through earths atmosphere?

Answer 22

40% absorbed by ground
20% absorbed by atmosphere
Rest to ground

Question 23

What is Long Wave radiation?

Answer 23

When Earth absorbs energy and emits it

Question 24

What is Short Wave radiation?

Answer 24

Radiant Energy from the sun

Question 25

What is Counter Radiation?

Answer 25

Radiation from atmosphere to Earth

Question 26

What form of Energy is most responsible for heating the Earth

Answer 26

Solar Radiation

Question 27

What is Latent/Sensible heat?

Answer 27

Latent: Stored or released from water Sensible: Heat you can touch

Question 28

Why is water vapor important to the energy balance?

Answer 28

Its responsible for about half of earths energy greenhouse gases

Question 29

List the constant gases found in Earths Atmosphere?

Answer 29

Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon

Question 30

List the Variable Gases

Answer 30

Carbon Dioxide, Methane

Question 31

What is Ozone, where is it found?

Answer 31

Odorless gas made up of 3 oxygen molecules and is natural part of the environment found in the stratosphere

Question 32

Latitudinaly, where is there a surplus and deficit of radiation

Answer 32

Surplus: Tropics Deficit: High Latitude Areas

Question 33

What is specific Heat? How does it differ between land and water?

Answer 33

Specific Heat is an exact number Specific heat of water is greater then dry soil

Question 34

What is Albedo?

Answer 34

Reflectivity of Earth

Question 35

What is Atmospheric Pressure?

Answer 35

The Pressure exerted by the atmosphere

Question 36

How is it measured?

Answer 36

With a barometer

Question 37

How does it change vertically?

Answer 37

Air pressure decreases with increasing height

Question 38

How does it change Horizontally?

Answer 38

Wind speed

Question 39

Where might we see 950mb of air pressure?

Answer 39

High Altitude locations

Question 40

What is Pressure Gradient Force?

Answer 40

Change in atmosphere pressure

Question 41

What is the Coriolis Effect?

Answer 41

moving objects not attached to Earths surface

Question 42

What is geostrophic wind?

Answer 42

Wind parallel to the isobars

Question 43

Describe a cyclone

Answer 43

Counterclockwise wind spirals

Question 44

Describe a Anticyclone

Answer 44

Clockwise wind spirals

Question 45

What causes air to rise from the Earth?

Answer 45

Heat from sunlight Convection

Question 46

What causes air to sink towards the earth?

Answer 46

Gravity, Cooler Temps

Question 47

What is Hadley Cell?

Answer 47

Low lat. circulations that have air rising at the equator and sinking at roughly 30 degress

Question 48

What are trade winds?

Answer 48

Winds that blow east to west just above or below the equator

Question 49

What are Westerlies

Answer 49

Strong, powerful winds

Question 50

What are doldrums?

Answer 50

Winds that help ships travel faster

Question 51

What are horse latitudes?

Answer 51

A belt of calm air and sea occuring in both the northern and southern hemispheres

Question 52

What is the ITCZ?

Answer 52

Trade winds near the equator.