Exam 1- Quiz Study Set – Flashcards
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Geography is
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The study of places and how places interact spatially to form patterns.
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Which of Earth's four physical systems is a living system?
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Biosphere.
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Which of the following statements about regions is true?
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Geographers decide what phenomena to use to define a region.
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A culture hearth is
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A region from which innovative ideas originate.
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Which is an example of contagious diffusion?
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The sharing of music preferences among a group of friends.
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Diffusion
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Sometimes encounters barriers.
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The earth rotates about its
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axis.
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Which of the following will NOT bring about changes in relative location.
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Latitude and longitude.
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The position, placement, or arrangement of something throughout space is its
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Distribution.
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The statement "1:24,000" is an example of
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A fractional scale.
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The fuel driving the weather is
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Solar Energy.
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Which of the following factors plays a relatively small role in the amount of solar energy received at a particular place on the Earth?
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Distance of the Earth to the Sun.
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At the Tropic of Cancer the sun is directly overhead at noon on the
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Summer Solstice.
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Latent heat is
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Heat in storage in water and water vapor.
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Which area receives the most seasonal variation in incoming radiation?
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High Latitudes.
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Areas near oceans have ______________________ than areas in the interior of continents because of the great storage capacity of water.
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Warmer winters, cooler summers.
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Rain shadows in mountainous areas are a result of
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Orographic uplift.
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In tropical climates, the combination of ____________ with ________________ creates intense daily convective storms.
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High temperatures, humidity.
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Where would higher levels of potential evapotranspiration occur on an average?
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Tropics.
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Most of the world's tropical rainforests lie within
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10 Degrees North and 10 Degrees South.
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The Hawaiian Islands
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Are a series of shield volcanoes.
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What kind of rocks are formed when molten crustal material cools and solidifies?
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Igneous.
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What kind of rocks have been exposed to great heat and pressure, altering them into more compact, crystalline rocks?
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Metamorphic.
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The place where Earth's crust actually moves is the _____________ of an earthquake.
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Focus.
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In what kind of plate boundary is material from the crust very slowly faced downward, back into the mantle?
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Convergent.
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Earthquakes are most likely to occur
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Where two tectonic plates join.
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Seafloor spreading
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Can occur at divergent plate boundaries.
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Which of the following is NOT true of chemical weathering?
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It occurs faster in cooler places.
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Alpine glaciers
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Form near the peaks of individual mountains.
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Shield volcanoes are more likely to cause death and destruction than composite cone volcanoes.
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False
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The thin layer of living things, of which we are an inseparable part, is the
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Biosphere.
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Photosynthesis
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Takes place in green plants.
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Water constantly circulates through
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All four of the spheres.
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Which of the following would be logical sequential steps for a drop of water in the hydrologic cycle?
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Precipitation, runoff, storage, evapotranspiration.
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Evapotranspiration
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Includes the processes of plants.
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Atmospheric _____________ is absorbed by the biosphere during photosynthesis, stored in living organisms and in the soil, and released through respiration.
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Carbon.
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What areas have highly weathered soils due to leaching and soils that are usually oxidized?
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Humid tropical and subtropical.
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An interrelated collection of plants and animals and the physical environment with which they react is a(n)
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Ecosystem.
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Which of the following would be considered a primary producer in a typical food chain?
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Plant.
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POTET never exceeds ACTET.
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False
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Anything created through natural processes that people use and value is a
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Natural Resource.
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A natural resource is defined by three elements
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Cultural values, technology and economic system.
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Renewable energy sources include all of the following EXCEPT _____________ power.
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Nuclear.
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A group of countries that agree to control the market by limiting production in order to drive up prices is
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A cartel.
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Which of the following would NOT be considered a natural resource?
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Computers.
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Which of the following is important in stabilizing resource prices and limiting problems caused by resource scarcity?
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Substitutability.
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For electric generation in the United States, the main energy resource is
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Coal.
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North America and Europe account for nearly three-fourths of the world's
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Energy consumption.
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The "universal solvent," able to dissolve and transport a wide range of substances is
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Water.
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Forests do NOT
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Cover only 3 percent of the Earth's surface.
