KU Geography 105 – Lab Final – Flashcards
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The amount of detail--> PIXELS. More pixels, more detail.
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Spatial Resolution
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physically shoot something at it, comes back to you as colors, send out wavelength
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Active Resolution
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getting the data. Taking a picture (wavelength is coming off as colors)
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Passive Resolution
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- incoming solar radation - more insol. higher temp - Closer to the equator - seasonal variation --> seasons change as earth rotates
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Insolation
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ex: florida, more insolation
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Latitudinal
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- point with the most insolation that occurs on any given day - Migrates - tropic of cancer 23.5 North in summer// tropic of capricorn 23.5 South in winter - Moves up in our summer and down in our winter. -on tropic of capricorn
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Sub Solar Point
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never moves, always at 0, most insolation always
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Equator
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- migrates. Always follows sub-solar point - air coming together, low pressure - Climate: (low, rainbow) hot, rainy, tropical rainforest -Found: somewhere in the tropics, near equator - vegetation: tropical rainforest - low pressure, so the air rises
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ITCZ - intertropical convergent zone
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N S, moves east to west
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Longitude
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E W, but moves N to South - Tropic of Cancer --> 23.5 N S - Tropic of Capricorn --> 23.5 N S
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Latitude
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63.5 N S
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Arctic Circle
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depends on how earth is tilting, could be 24 hours of sunlight in summer or darkness in winter
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Antarctic Circle
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2 sides to mountain: rainy side & side with rain shadow
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Orographic Mountains
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Direction of the wind goes up - cools down- getting closer to saturation - actual temp hits due point temp - at saturation - vapor condenses and turns into water (clouds) then it rains - go over mountain - no rain (rain shadow) - westerly winds affect it. (east side is wet, west side is dry)
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Orographic Uplift
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rainy. Vegetation: trees
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Windward
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dry vegetation: grass
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Leeward
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- High Pressure - Climate: (high dry) Dry, worlds great deserts, grass, cacti - Found: 30 degrees N and S - grass, scrub, low precip.
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STH - Subtropical High
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are blown toward the East. EVERYTHING GOES WEST TO EAST. affect orographic lift
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Westerly Winds
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Temp where Relative Humidity = 100%
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Dew Point
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Transition zone. Warm to cold air. (red)
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Warm Front
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blue, will be having more rain, dew point higher, more humid, advancing cold air to warm air
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Cold Front
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counterclockwise
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WINDS ALWAYS GOES
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average of all the weather
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Climate
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what's happening on any given day
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Weather
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explains temp and precipitation
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Climograph
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Atmospheric info when that snow landed. Gas bubbles tell you about climate
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Ice cores
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Remember TREE STUMPS - Rainfall: big (thick) tree ring - Dry: thin tree ring -----Tree with with multiple rings, which one is bigger and which one is smaller??
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Dendrochronology
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P: Pollen, Plants What kind of plants. What the climate was like. - Tree pollen: lots of rain - Grass pollen: forest fires
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Pollenology
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Specific geographic pieces of land that have similar plants and animals
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Biomes
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Transition between biomes. Has characteristics of both biomes. Ex: deserty grassland
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Ecotone
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Take sediment and you lithify (transforms into stone), diagenesis (change of sediments) - must erode
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Sedimentary
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- Intrusive (inside earth, big grains, shiny) extrusive (outside) - Magma cooling down
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Igneous
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Extra heat pressure to rock - must melt magma
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Metamorphic
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-Igneous --> Metamorphic --> sedimentary - Metamorphic --> sedimentary-->igneous - Sedimentary-->igneous-->metamorphic
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Rock Cycle
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Sand, Silt, Clay
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Soil
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Will not hold a lot of moisture or nutrients, low water holding capacity
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What if the soil is really sandy?
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Holding a lot of water and nutriets tightly, plants cant get the nutrients because clay is hogging it, water is pooling up on top of clay
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What if it's clay soil?
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Mixture of all types, WE WANT IT
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Loamy Soil
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top of mountain: medium soil. middle of mountain: thinest soil - run off, erosion. Bottom of mountain: really thick soil. Most water logged conditions (remember the picture)
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Soil on a Slope
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O - organic material A - top soil, lots of organic matter, where we grow things, dark colored E - leaching, eluviation - material that gets in this horizon gets flushed down B - zone of accumulation, illuviation, bringing in material C - unweathered parent material R - rock
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Soil Horizon
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(COME TOGETHER) 2 converging continental tectonic plates coming together to make mountains and volcanoes. (where hot spots occur)--------->>>> Subduction. (fault boundary)
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Convergent Tectonics
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(DIVIDE) pulling away (hand thing that he did) (mid oceanic ridges, large rift valleys)(fault boundary)
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Divergent Tectonics
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nothing (fault boundary)
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Passive Tectonics
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slide pass each other (fault boundary)
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Transform Tectonics
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When one plate goes beneath other one. ex: oceanic plate is more dense than continental, so it will always be the one to go below it. --> trench Volcanoes, deep ocean trenches oceanic + ocean or continental + oceanic or continental = subduction ----- Plate goes beneath--> dips below--> crest gets low that it melts-->volcano
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Subduction
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2 ends and compresses slowly (to not crack)--> start with something flat, starts to make squigly line, folds all layers underneath - Anticlines - at top of mountain -Synclines - at bottom
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Tectonic Folding
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at the end of meandering stream, depositional - depositing water, dispersion: loss of energy, drop sediment
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Delta
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at the bottom of meandering stream
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Oxbow Lake
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erosional, cutting, wall will keep cutting, meandering stream moves with the cut bank
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Cut Bank
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depositional, what it is?
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Point Bar
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where river can erode to, where it eroded to prior. Reperian zone: vegetation along flood plains. Rivers help vegetation. Have trees along river--> more moisture
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Flood Plain
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Delta, Oxbow Lake, Cut Bank, Point Bar, Flood Plain
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Meandering Rivers Contain
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Q=Wdv - know what it means Q - discharge W- width D- depth V- velocity - If one side goes up, other side must go out - Anytime you change discharge, something on the other side must change to compensate - Equation must always be balanced
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Continuity Equation
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Zone of Accumulation
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At the top of the mountain
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altitude, ELA
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In the middle of the mountain
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Zone of Ablation (ice melts)
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At the bottom of mountain
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morains, dremlins, eksers, kettle lakes
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Depositional landforms
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- Terminal - happens at the end of a glacier (know this - one the best) - Lateral - stuff melts off glaciar - Medial - inbetween 2 glaciers - Ground
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Type of Morains
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- Big pile of sediment when you are in aired environment, infrequent rainstorms, sediment falls off - Will not have them if land is flat. Must have a slope or drop off - When water falls off cliff, disperses. Drop sediment, lose energy ◊ Course at the top, fine is at the bottom WHY? Course stuff is heavy so it gets dropped first. The second you disperse, you lose energy you drop all the big stuff. Little stuff doesn't take much energy so you take it all the way to the bottom ◊ Braided stream
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Alluvial Fans
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not a lot of sand, strong wind comes from one direction
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Barchan Dune
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anchored by vegetation, don't need a lot of sand
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Parabolic Dune
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high sand supply, multiple wind directions, largest dunes in the world
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Star Dune
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perfect ridges, squiggly lines, slow wind blows over
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Transverse Dune
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how waves hit the beach at an angle, move sand along the beach which ever direction wind is going ----Spits ----Baymount bar
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Longshore drift
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fingerlake projection that goes into ocean. Erosional, ex: snap bracelet --Can become sea cave--> sea stack --> erodes to nothing
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Headland
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little pockets, get stuff that was eroded off headlands to make beach, behind headlands, get sand from headlands
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Pocket Beach
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strip of sand that connects sea stack to main land, depositional
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Tombolo
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in the summer and winter, earth is titled completely winter solstice - sometimes 24 hours of darkness summer solstice - 24 hours of sun
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Solstice
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spring and fall
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equinox
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air rises
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Low pressure
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dry
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arid
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all seasons (MN) - winters are super cold, summers are super hot
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temperate
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hot, humid, moist - around the equator
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tropical
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ITCZ & STH
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what are zones are complete opposites?
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