Chap 1 - Geography (Our Lady)
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- Five themes of geography?
- Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions.
- What is involved in the study of geography?
- People, places, and things and how they relate to each other, earth's surface cultures and economics, relationships between people and their evironment.
- Absolute Location
- A place's position on the globe. (40'N, 80'W)
- Equator
- An imaginary line that cirlces the globe halfway between the North and South poles.
- Formal Region
- An area in which a certain characteristic (attribute) is found throughout the area. (Example: Corn Belt)
- Functional Region
- A central place and the surrounding places affected by it. (Examples: Boston Metropolitan Area or Railsystem)
- Geography
- The study of wherepeople, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
- Hemisphere
- One of two equal halves of the earth.
- Latitude
- Imaginary lines that run parallel to the Equator. (Run West-East)(example: 10'N)
- Longitude
- Imaginary lines that run North and South. (example: 26'E)
- Prime Meridian
- An imaginary line from which other meridians are measured.
- Relative Location
- A place's position in relation to other places.
- Landforms, climate and vegetation are:
- Physical characteristics of places.
- Irrigation system, houses, and roads are examples of:
- people changing environments.
- The solar system is NOT part of geography. (True of False)
- True- The solar system is not geography.
- An example of International Trade is:
- movement of people, goods and ideas between places.
- Core
- The center of the Earth.
- Fault
- A break in the earth's crust.
- Mantle
- The thick layer of rock around the earth's core.
- Relief
- The difference in elevation between a landform's highest and lowest ponts.
- Crust
- Earth's thin, rocky surface.
- The earth is a planet affected by?
- change
- Landforms on the earth's surface are created and changed by?
- internal forces
- According to the theory of plate tectonics, the earth's outer shell consists of:
- a number of large, moving plates.
- Circular movement of heat below the earth's surface, or convection, causes:
- volcanoes to erupt.
- Volcanoes and earthquakes are likely to occur:
- where plates collide or pull apart.
- What are the largest landmasses in the earth's oceans?
- Continents
- Geology
- Study of the earth's physical structure and history.
- Fold
- Bend or buckling of the earth's crust.
- Plate Tectonics
- theory that the earth's outer shell is not one piece of rock.
- Continental Drift Theory
- Idea that all continents were once a single landmass but are now separate.
- Ring of Fire
- Circle of volcanic mountains around the Pacific Ocean.
- Lava
- Molten rock that flows from a volcano.
- Weathering
- Chemical or mechanical process by which rock is gradually broken down.
- Mechanical Weathering
- the actual breaking up or physical weakening of rock by forces such as ice and roots.
- Chemical Weathering
- Process by which the actual chemical structure of rock is changed.
- Acid Rain
- Rain with highconcentrations of chemicals that kills plant and animal life and eats away at the surface of stone and rock.
- Erosion
- The movement of weathered materials usually caused by water, wind and glaciers.
- Sediment
- Small particles of soil, sand, and gravel carried and deposited by water.
- Loess
- Fine-grained, mineral-rich loam, dust, or silt deposited by winds.
- Glacier
- Huge, slow-moving mass of snow and ice.
- Moraine
- Ridge-like mass of rock, gravel, sand, and clay carried and deposited by a glacier.
- Two important forces in chemical weathering are:
- Water and Carbon Dioxide
- Three most common causes of erosion?
- Water, Wind, and Glaciers
- Dust Bowl is in?
- North America
- Continent covered by glaciers?
- Antarctica