Geography Test 1 notes
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- northern hemisphere
- called the land hemisphere
- demography
- study of population
- toponym
- a place name
- 55 degrees
- above ______ north is the high latitudes
- atlas
- compendium of maps
- Lebanon, Taurus, Zagros
- mountains in the fertile cresent
- west african (nygeria)
- culture hearth that domesticated sorghum, milo
- greeks
- invented north and south pole and artificial grid
- our perception of the environment
- geographers are interested in
- leeward
- the sheltered side of the mountains
- climate
- is conditioned by latitude and longitude
- lots of mills, so they needed more hands
- why was there are sharp jump in birth rate in the transitional period
- neolithic
- metallurgy came about with what period
- tropical rainforest
- richest vegetation biome
- 24, 15
- there are ____ time zones each ___ degrees long
- spatial terms
- realtionships that we map
- eratosthemes
- measured circumference of earth
- climate
- record of short term atmospheric phenomenon to get a general description
- Kurdistan
- where is Jarmo
- james watts end of 1700s
- ______ created the steam engine at
- geocentric
- way a lto of people think- their location is superior
- spinning frame
- invention that moved textiles to the factory system
- 1750 abraham darby
- industrial revolution begin ins _________with _______ _________'s find
- technology
- is driving in landscape change
- tundra
- biome that has heat for vegetation in short southern months
- 18,000
- peak of last glacial advance was __________- yr. ago
- lots of weight and thunderstorms
- low atmosphereic pressure means
- ecumene
- name of midlatitudes with 4 seasons
- weather
- short term atmospheric phenomenon
- 100 million
- 200 BC population was at
- 1 billion
- in 1800s world population reached
- map projections
- formulas to make a map
- industiral
- transition stage where the death rate continues to decline because of more improvements in human health
- small scale map
- a map that covers a larger area
- hygrometer
- humidity is measured with a
- large scale map
- a map that covers a smaller area
- starts
- the maps at lascaux mapped the
- gross national product (GNP)
- value in US dollars total production of all goods and services in a country
- storms
- component of weather and climate
- atmospheric pressure
- weight of the atmosphere on earths surface
- prarie/ steppe
- biome with absence of trees except in protective cover, very rich soils with lots of ground cover, short and long grass
- catal huyuk
- be hte oldest record of city
- mercator projection
- distance is alway correct and so is shape but it englarges dramatically towards poles
- herodotus
- father of knowledge, compled all known knolwedge
- little weight and no rain
- high atmospheric pressure means
- manchester
- in 1830s _________ was called the cottonopolis
- industrial
- transition stage where the actual need for people is gone so the birth rate goes down
- map
- geography's essential tool
- 1819
- year the first labor law was passed
- distortion
- more area of the earth you try to map =
- prime merridean
- where day and time begins, 0 degrees
- textiles
- equally as important as coal
- liverpool
- was the cotton export of Britain
- wool
- traditional textile industry was
- greeks
- the knew the world was round but then the concept of being flat cam along towards the end of rome
- humidity
- amount of water to gas in the air
- charcol
- main energy supply in 1600s
- north china
- culture hearth domesticaed rice
- 1948
- opening season at Jarmo was in
- lascaux cave painting
- dordogne, france you have the
- transitional
- transition stage with a population explosion
- preindustrial
- transition period with broad swings in death rather than birth rate, but the death and birth rate cancel each ohter out
- Tigris and Euprhates
- rivers in fertile crescent
- flow map
- movement of people and processes through arrows
- covereing a wood pile with dirt or turf
- made charchol by
- indus
- which culture hearth appears right after fertile crescent
- Jas hangreares
- invented spinning jenny
- desert
- biome with absence of vegetation all together
- wind
- is identified by the place it comes from
- meterology
- relationship between earth and the atmosphere (aristotles definition)
- steam
- energy revolution of the 1700s was
- north china plain, 4,000 BC
- culture heart in lower reaches of yellow sea in year ____
- ancient greeks
- began systematic order of knowledge of earth's surface and mapped it
- spatial terms
- geography studies the world in
- decidous
- trees which leaves fall
- northern midlatitidues
- most industrialized regions of the world are in the
- mixed forest
- biome midlatitude with mixed deciduous forests
- low pressure
- storms are a result of
- couldn't get it hot enough to melt iron ore
- energy crisis problem was they had plenty of coal but couldn't get it hot enough to melt iron ore
- kilometers, feet, miles
- three types of measurements used with bar scales
- contentinality
- where you ar ein a land mass- position of places in regard to water
- new castle, scottish lowlands, giasgow
- coal areas with population changes
- technology
- the carrying capacity is increased through
- rome fell
- maps changed and world was taught to be flat after
- herodotus
- named and mapped continents europe and asia
- abraham darby in 1709
- ________ invented industrial cokeing cole (coke) in
- taigia
- biome where takes a long time for a tree to grow b/c of lack of heat
- water
- holds heat longer than the land
- dendrochronology
- reading of tree rings for weather
- anemometer
- wind is measured by an
- transitional
- tansition period where death rate plummets
- 90
- total of _________ degrees latitude
- spinning jenny
- large as a table and would make 80x more thread but it was weak and uneven
- 7500 BC
- catal huyuk dates to
- catal huyuk
- made the earliest map on stone
- richard arkwright
- inved spinning frame/ water frame
- frigid, ecumene, torrid
- aristotle divided the world into three zones called
- altiplano
- culture hearth that domesticated potato, corn, and llama
- preindustrial, transitional, industrial, postindustrial
- demographic transition stages (4)
- ice cap
- biome that is the nourth and south extreme latitudes
- diurnal
- difference between temperature in the night and day
- energy crisis
- problem with industrial revolution in 1600s
- oblate sheriod
- earth is in the shape of an
- toponymy
- the study of toponyms
- place
- human named and known
- Industrial revolution
- lead to large labor shifts, new cities, better health, and great population
- geographic information systems
- computer assisted geographic analysis and graphic representation fo spatial data
- map
- always distorted
- frigid and torrid
- two zones classified as unsituable to the development of the human mind
- postindustrial
- transition stage where birth and death rate are basically the same
- neolithic revolution
- we presently live in the shadow of the
- 1910
- year we were majority urban for the first time
- scale
- everything always has
- mediterranean
- biome with umbrella pine, thick undergrowth, rain in winter and drought in summer
- maquis
- biome with thick undergrowth
- undifferentiated highlands
- mountain biome
- medicine and health
- scientific breakthroughs in _______- and __________ also came w/ industrial revolution
- taiga
- biome of the borreal/ coniferous forest
- 4 million
- 10,000 BC population was at
- cartogram
- takes the data which decides the size of the unit area
- spruce, pine trees
- coniferous forest is composed of
- 10,000 BC
- process of change stumbled on specific domesticated crops animals in year
- spatial
- space- all places everything
- otzi the iceman
- oldest mummy
- may
- harvest in jarmo is in
- biome
- a terrestrial ecosystem type categorized by a dominat type of natural vegetation
- newcomen engine
- early and efficent method to harness steam
- agricultural revolution
- the long term process of developing plant and animal husbandry
- 12
- how many biomes
- fumifugium, john evelyn
- first essay on air pollution and how we can green on environment is and who by
- malthusian
- where people say that the earth is doomed and people are stripping the food supply
- metallurgy
- development of metal tools
- reverand thomas malthus
- wrote essay on the principal of population
- prime merridean
- greenwhich was established as the
- europe
- is currently in a population decline
- transitional
- transition period with a shapr jump in birthrate
- cosmographer
- someone who is interested in everythign of eather, space, and all knowledge
- emmer and einkorn
- 2 types of wheat
- 200 million
- 100 AD population was at
- insolation
- amount of sunlight given in a certain place at a certain time
- mekong
- culture hearth that domesticated chicken, banana, citrus
- more reliable when we control plants and animals
- why switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture
- neanderthal
- last other species we killed them off
- russians
- who named the moon
- preindustrial
- transition period with famine biggest cause of large swings in death rate, but war and disease had affect too
- choropleth map
- uses different ting or pattern to indicate value. tint ranges from less to more intense
- aristotle
- person is a cosmographer
- mexico
- culture hearth that domesticated tobacco, avacado, tomoato, and turkey
- roof
- you entered at house in catal huyuk from the
- postindustrial
- transition stage where causes of death have become smoking, obesity, car wrecks, etc
- spinning frame
- made strong cottong thread and was the size of a room and powered by water
- alps b/w austria and italy
- otzi was found
- globe
- has no distortions
- climatology
- decting areas of similar weather
- better diet and higher population then leads to migration and war to obtain other resources
- culture hearths lead to
- ratio scale
- both numerator and denominator are converted to same measurement 1:500
- industrial coking coal
- was very brittle and when moved began to turn to dust
- human agency
- perception says how we use environment
- representative fraction scale
- both the numerator and denominator are converted to the same unit of measurement 1/500
- biodiversity
- many different species/ tends to be where biomes meet
- hydrology
- water systems
- hecataeus
- before herodotus and also named continent africa
- 180
- total of _______ degrees longitude
- map
- reduction symbolic representation of the earth's sruface
- indus, north china plain, mekong, west african, mexico, altiplano
- culture hearths from east to west (6)
- James Mellaart
- began excavations at catal huyuk in 1961
- map
- also a simplified depiction of an area
- greeks
- solidified idea that maps are percieved from above
- postindustrial
- transition stage controlled by the birth rate which is directly affected by the economic pattern
- regions
- upstate, piedmont, blue ridge, midlands, low country are examples of
- 1922
- Irish republic gained independence in
- 3.5, 1000
- temperature drops ___ degrees every _____ ft up
- verbal scale
- statement "1 inch to 1 mile"
- plateau
- large area of upraised land
- industrial cokeing coal
- burn coal with limestone to make
- carrying capacity
- what we can produce given levels of society and technology
- public health has become much better
- why does the death rate plummet in the transitional period
- industrial
- tansition stage when urbanization become dominant way of life
- midlatitudes
- are right above and below the tropics
- graphic/bar scale
- showing real world unitys such as miles or kilometers usually subdivided to allow easy calculation
- middle east
- site of cultural innovations
- geography
- the science of organization of space and the science of place
- einkron because of the spur attached to its seed
- which wheat became more popular and why
- emmer 70%
- wheat that was more common at first
- topography
- the lay of the land, elevation
- pleistocene
- ice ages
- international date line
- also wehere day begins and ends, where calendar date changes
- meterology
- science of weather (current definition)
- 1950s
- Jarmo was worked on in the
- insolation, temperature, percipitation
- components of climatology and meterology