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