Intro. to Geography – Flashcards
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Peoples activity may affect what and what may affect people
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physical environment
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physical processes include what
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erosion, physical weathering, tornadoes, and volcanic eruptions
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Be able to distinguish between what
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human and physical systems
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what is a collection of maps
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atlas
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what is the best tool to use to plan hurricane evacuation routes
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GIS
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what are the best tool to use to compare the size of the continents
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Globes
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what is the best tool to use to pinpoint you exact location
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GPS
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what measures areas near the poles that appear larger than they are
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Mercator projection
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what is the best tool to use to locate the boundaries between countries
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A political map
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what are used by cartographers when visibility is reduced
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RADARs
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what shows the color of the maps features
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Relief map's
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what elevation is indicated by the distance between lines
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Topographical map
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what projections reduce distortion of distance, direction, and area
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Winker Triple
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what includes all of the following: a simple, meaningful, attractive design, accurate information, and clear presentation of information.
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Effective charts and graphs
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what are location, place, human environmental interaction, movement and regions.
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Geographic themes
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what describes what the place is like in both physical and human characteristics.
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Geographic place
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what describes where something is both absolute and relative.
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Geographic location
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Be able to distinguish between human and physical characteristics
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Be able to distinguish human-environmental movement
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what are defined by their common characteristics, areas can belong to more than one region, and regions are defined by people
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regions
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Be able to distinguish political, physical, economic, cultural, and climate regions.
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what is the earth's outermost layer
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The crust
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what is in the metallic layer at the earth's center
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The inner core
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what is the hottest part of the mantle
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The lower mantle
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what is the semi-solid layer between the top layer and the upper mantle.
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The asthenosphere
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what is the layer between the asthenosphere and the lower mantle.
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The upper mantle
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what is the firm layer between the crust and the asthenosphere
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The top layer
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what is the layer surrounding the inner core.
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the outer core
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what has the least change in temperature between winter and summer months.
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the tropical climate
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Be able to distinguish between nonrenewable and renewable resources
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makes climate habitable and increases temperatures.
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The greenhouse effect
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Earthquakes, ocean circulation patterns, ocean trenches, and volcanoes can be explained by
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plate tectonics
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• The water cycle is powered by
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the sun
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can be caused by physical processed in the hydrosphere
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hurricanes
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what move warm air from the equator toward the poles
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ocean currents
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what is another name for atmospheric circulation patterns.
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wind
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what move easily across the plains.
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winds
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what occur in the atmosphere.
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• Westerlies
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occurs in the biosphere
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grazing
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what occurs in the hydrosphere
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tides
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what occurs in the lithosphere
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weathering
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is the physical process responsible for the movement of soil.
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erosion
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can be both harmful and beneficial to the environment.
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erosion
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is caused by human activities.
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erosion
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is caused by the wind, water, and gravity
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erosion
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• The process of erosion moves what
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soil
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is one way to judge the health of an ecosystem.
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Biodiversity
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must be balanced to survive.
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Ecosystems
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what sometimes improve the health of an ecosystem.
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People's activities
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what play a role in balancing the earth's ecosystems
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Predators
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receives less than ten inches of rain annually.
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The desert
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is the world's largest ecosystem.
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the forest
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are an ecosystem in which much of it has been converted to farms.
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Grassland
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is the ecosystem with the harshest climate
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tundra
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include wetlands, rivers and lakes.
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freshwater ecosystem
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include oceans, estuaries, and coral reefs.
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Marine ecosystems
