geography ch 1-3 study guide

- What is climate change? And what sort of formations on the earth does it heavily effect?

a slow shift of climate patterns caused by the general cooling and warming of the atmosphere global warming

- The center of Pangaea is thought to have been modern-day:

africa

- The Pangaea hypothesis proposes what about the continents of the earth?

all the continents were once joined in a single vast continent that was called pangea then moved

the making of maps is called

cartography

- When plates slip past each other, the result is a(n):

earthquake

- The highest average temperatures on Earth fall within a band 30° north and south of what important line of latitude?

equator

the prime meridian runs from the northern and southern hemisphere at the

equator

A map is by definition an unbiased view of the world.

false

most world regions are defined by the same set of indicators

false

What term describes rainfall caused by the interaction of large air masses of different temperatures and densities?

frontal precipitation

What is GISc and how is it utilized in geography?

geographic information science the body of science that supports spacial analysis technology

The calendar day officially begins when midnight falls at what location?

international date line

which factor is not an aspect of geographic anaylysis

lithography

lines of longitude are also known as

merdians

lines of latitude are also known as

parallels

Warm, moist air rises and becomes less able to hold its moisture as it reaches higher altitudes. The result is:

percipitation

- In what sub-discipline of geography do researchers study landforms? (It is not geology)

physical geography

Geography as a discipline links the _________________ with the _____________________.

physical sciences and social sciences

Cartographers solve the problem of showing the spherical Earth on a flat piece of paper by using:

projections

what concept is used to identify the area of earth's surface that contains distinct patterns of human or physical activity or features

region

what term refers to the relationship between the distance shown on the map and the actual distances on earth's surface

scale

the study of how people, objects, or ideas are related to one another across space is called

spatial analysis

To fit the spherical Earth onto a flat map, a Mercator projection:

stretches out the poles and looks equal to the equator

- What is the theory of plate tectonics? How does it work?

the earth's surface is large plates that float on top of a molten layer of rock that drifts slowly this separated pangea

- What feature on the physical landscape CANNOT be explained by the theory of plate tectonics?

the mississippi river delta

- As one moves away from the equator, average temperatures drop due to what phenomena?

the sunlight strikes the earth's surface at an angle and is therefore less intense.

- Wind is created through relationships of:

variations in air pressure

_____ refers to short-term changes in temperature and other factors, while _____ is a long-term balance of temperature and precipitation

weather, climate

- Through which landscape process is rock broken down into smaller pieces?

weathering

Central to the study of geography are the questions ________ and ________.

where and why