geography final

Question 1

Archipelago

Answer 1

A chain of islands like Hawaii

Question 2

cape

Answer 2

a point of land cutting out in the sea ex cape of good hope

Question 3

depression

Answer 3

a hollow or low area in a land surface streams often will flow into a deppresion and have no means of exit ex glacial valley

Question 4

divide

Answer 4

or watershed the high point of land from
wich streams flow opposite dirrcetions. ex yellow rivers

Question 5

island

Answer 5

land wich is enterily surronded by water ex united kingdom

Question 6

peninsula

Answer 6

peninsuala a finger of land streatching into a sea or a lake ex arabian penninsula

Question 7

plain

Answer 7

a large area of land wich is flator has gently rolling hill ex the atlantic costal plain

Question 8

plateau

Answer 8

an area wich rises steeply from the surronding countryside and has a flat surfaceex the colarado plateau

Question 9

valley

Answer 9

low area between mountians or hilld ex death valley

Question 10

bay

Answer 10

part of large water body partially surronded by land ex san francisco bay

Question 11

delta

Answer 11

an area of low flat land found where a river empties into the sea or a lake it is made from soil deposited by the river the result is many channels of the river flowing into the sea ex delta bc

Question 12

delta

Answer 12

an area of low flat land found where a river empties into the sea or a lake it is made from soil deposited by the river the result is many channels of the river flowing into the sea ex delta bc

Question 13

downstream

Answer 13

the direction in wich a river flows rivers always flow downhill form areas of high to low elovation and can flow in any compass direction upstream refers to the oppasite direction upward in elovation against the flown of the current ex natural gas liquids

Question 14

drainage baisn

Answer 14

area of land drained by a single river system ex mississpi river

Question 15

gulf

Answer 15

a body of water partially surronded by land usally larger than a bay ex flordia

Question 16

mouth

Answer 16

where a river or stream empties into a larger body of water ex colorado river

Question 17

ocean

Answer 17

a very large body of salt water ex pacific ocean

Question 18

sea

Answer 18

body of salt water bodering or enclosed by a continet ex black sea

Question 19

strait

Answer 19

a narrow stretch of water connecting to two larger bodies of water ex strait of messina

Question 20

tributray

Answer 20

a stream wich drains into a larger stream or lake ex missouri river

Question 21

define the fowlling terms

Answer 21

skip

Question 22

spot hieght

Answer 22

a exact point on a map with an elovation recorede wich repersents hight

Question 23

layer tinting

Answer 23

is used to enhance elevation zones so map readers can better see differences in relief.

Question 24

cardinal points

Answer 24

basically a compass rose

Question 25

planed distrubation

Answer 25

refers to the way something is spread out or arranged over a spacifc are

Question 26

parrels of latitude

Answer 26

an imangnary line tha rounds the eath ex equator

Question 26

merridinas of longtitude

Answer 26

imaganry lines that divide the earth ex prime merridina

Question 27

altitude

Answer 27

is the distnace above sea level

Question 28

axis

Answer 28

a invasible line around wich an object rotates or spins

Question 29

contour lines

Answer 29

is a line drwan on a topographic map to indacte ground elovation or deppression

Question 30

contour interval

Answer 30

is the vertical distance or diffrence in ELOVATION between contour lines

Question 31

map classifaction

Answer 31

the process of sorting or arranging entitles into groups by the same symbol usally difineed a legend

Question 32

landforms

Answer 32

is a natural or anthropoligec land feature on the solid surface of the earth

Question 33

time zones

Answer 33

skip

Question 34

how many time zones are in the world?

Answer 34

24

Question 35

how are landfroms created

Answer 35

1.forces of erosim wind rain etc move particals from one place and deposit them at each other over time these deposit areas grow larger. 2. also if a small river travles for thousands of years it dumps into the land deeper and depper and depsoits the minerlas it takes at the end

Question 36

how is delta created and explain why itb is good for agricultre

Answer 36

as rivers empty there water and sediment into another body of water such as a ocean,lake,or another body of water they are good becuase they have a rich ammount of silt