Unit 1 GEOGRAPHY

Question 1

Geography

Answer 1

Study of earth

Question 2

Location

Answer 2

Where something is

Question 3

What are the two locations? Define them

Answer 3

Absolute- Exact place on Earth

Relative Location- Relationship w/ another place

Question 4

Longitude

Answer 4

North to East

Question 5

Latitude

Answer 5

South to West

Question 6

Equator

Answer 6

Middle of the Earth

Question 7

Prime Meridian, which way is it going?

Answer 7

Line in the middle of the Earth (up and down)

Question 8

Place (Theme of Geography)

Answer 8

Area of somewhere w/ humane characteristics

Question 9

What is Region?

Answer 9

How the region is formed/changed.

Question 10

Name the three Regions, define them.

Answer 10

Formal: Shares Characteristics

Functional: activity and distance

Perceptual: Culture identity

Question 11

Movement

Answer 11

How it moves

Question 12

Humane Environment

Answer 12

How we survive in an area

Question 13

Map Projection

Answer 13

Method map of taking something curved and making it flat

Question 14

Physical Map

Answer 14

Shows landforms

Question 15

Political Map

Answer 15

Shows boundaries

Question 16

GIPS

Answer 16

Geo Info System

Question 17

GPS

Answer 17

Handheld device, helps you get around

Question 18

Pangea

Answer 18

Continental Drift Theory

Question 19

Converging Plates

Answer 19

Plates colliding

Question 20

Subduction

Answer 20

Forced under

Question 21

Tectonic Plates

Answer 21

Covering Plates

Question 22

Divergent Plates

Answer 22

Spreading

Question 23

Subduction Plates

Answer 23

Slides past each other

Question 24

Transforming Plates

Answer 24

Subduction Plates

Question 25

Epicenter

Answer 25

Middle of Earth

Question 26

Richer Scale

Answer 26

Scales power of Earthquakes, 7 and up is bad

Question 27

Ring of Fire

Answer 27

Volcanic hotspot

Question 28

Hydrologic Cycle

Answer 28

Water passes vapor

Question 29

Topography

Answer 29

Top of Earths surface

Question 30

Weather

Answer 30

Day

Question 31

Climate

Answer 31

Year

Question 32

Rain Shadow; Example?

Answer 32

What the rain doesn’t touch, ex: one side of the mountain is dry while the other is wet.

Question 33

Temperature zone of Latitude

Answer 33

Cancer

Question 34

Tropical zone of Latitude

Answer 34

Capricorn

Question 35

Elevation/Altitude

Answer 35

More elevation= colder weather the higher you go

Question 36

Continentality

Answer 36

Measures land and water by temperature range.

Question 37

El Niño

Answer 37

Cold in Winter; More rain in America during the time

Question 38

Permafrost

Answer 38

Ground, rock and soil is freezing

Question 39

What are the Five Themes of Geography? Define them.

Answer 39

Location- Where are you Place- What it’s like (characteristics) Movement- Where culture/people move Region-How they are(same/different characteristics) Humane Environment- How we survive in an area (their preference)

Question 40

Define Culture

Answer 40

Knowledge, Attitude and behaviors shared/ passed on by a group.

Question 41

What are the main aspects of Culture?

Answer 41

Language, Religion, Nationalism/Borders, Material/What they use, Environment

Question 42

Different Types of Movement?

Answer 42

Diffusion, Migration, Globalization

Question 43

Environment is determined on what?

Answer 43

How we build things

Question 44

Thematic Map

Answer 44

Population

Question 45

Great Circled Route

Answer 45

Shorter distance, avoids winds

Question 46

Landsat

Answer 46

Satellites gives images (100 miles away)

Question 47

What are the three ways water moves?

Answer 47

Tide, wave, currents

Question 48

Drainage Basin

Answer 48

Area drainage by major river

Question 49

Fault

Answer 49

Fracture in earths surface

Question 50

Convection Precipitation

Answer 50

Occurs in hot, moist areas near equator.

Question 51

Orographic Precipitation

Answer 51

Near mountain/ eve lasted areas

Question 52

Ice Cap

Answer 52

Very cold all year w/ permit ice

Question 53

Subarctic

Answer 53

Snowy winters, rainy summers

Question 54

Marine West Cost

Answer 54

Warm summers, cool winters, rainy all year

Question 55

Tundra

Answer 55

Very cold winters, cold summers and barley rain/snow

Question 56

Highlands

Answer 56

Temperature and precipitation vary w/ elevation

Question 57

Humid Continental

Answer 57

Warm, rainy summers- cool, snowy winters

Question 58

Mediterranean

Answer 58

Warm all year, dry summers and short rainy winters

Question 59

Semiarid

Answer 59

Hot, dry summers and cool, dry winters

Question 60

Tropical wet and dry

Answer 60

Hot all year w/ some rain

Question 61

Humid Subtropical

Answer 61

Hot, rainy summers and mild winters w/ some rain

Question 62

Arid

Answer 62

Hot and dry with very little rain

Question 63

Tropical Wet

Answer 63

Hot and rainy all year