Ch.1-3

Question 1

What is the difference between physical and political maps?

Answer 1

Physical-shows the topography of earth’s features

Political-shows the boundaries between countries and states

Question 2

What Greek word does geography come from?

Answer 2

Geographia

Question 3

What are the types of location?

Answer 3

Absolute-the exact point where latitude and longitude meet

Relative-the location of one place in relation to another

Question 4

What are two branches of geography and how they differ?

Answer 4

Physical-focuses on the study of earth’s physical features

Human-focuses on human activities and their relationship to cultural and physical environments

Question 5

What geographers do?

Answer 5

Make observations of the earth and its climate,etc;make maps(cartographers);interview people to understand the human/environment interaction;create statistics to define regions and the land;use computers to make effective maps, charts, and such.

Question 6

How far is earth from sun?

Answer 6

93,000,000 miles

Question 7

What percentage of earth is water? What’s it called?

Answer 7

70%;hydrosphere

Question 8

What percentage is earth land? What’s it called?

Answer 8

30%;lithosphere

Question 9

What’s highest point on earth?

Answer 9

Mount Everest(29,028ft)

Question 10

What’s the lowest point on earth?

Answer 10

Dead Sea(1,312ft below sea level)

Question 11

What deepest part of the ocean?

Answer 11

Mariana Trench(35,800ft)

Question 12

What are the seven continents?

Answer 12

North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Antarctica,, Africa, Australia

Question 13

What are the five oceans?

Answer 13

Southern, Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic

Question 14

What is mantle made up of?

Answer 14

Thick rock such as silicon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, and nickel with two layers

Question 15

What is the crust? What is it made of?

Answer 15

It’s the top layer of earth;consists of rock that actually “float” on partially melted layers in the upper mantle.

Question 16

How many inches do plates move a year?

Answer 16

4 inches

Question 17

What is the difference between internal and external forces?

Answer 17

Internal-forces within the earth such as plate shifts such as folds and faults. These also cause earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and tsunamis
External-forces outside of earth that are out in the open. Weather(physical rocks break, and chemical-elements combine, rust) and erosion(from wind, glaciers, and water)

Question 18

What is difference between weather climate?

Answer 18

Weather-the condition of the atmosphere in one place during a limited period of time
Climate-the term for the weather patterns that typically experiences over a long period of time

Question 19

What is the angle of earth?

Answer 19

23 1/2 degrees

Question 20

The ___________ is located in the northern hemisphere at 23.5 degrees north.

Answer 20

Tropic of Cancer

Question 21

The ___________ is in the Southern Hemisphere at 23.5 degrees south

Answer 21

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 22

What marks the spring equinox?

Answer 22

March 21

Question 23

What marks the beginning of winter?

Answer 23

December 22

Question 24

What marks the beginning of fall?

Answer 24

September 23

Question 25

What marks the beginning of the Solstice?

Answer 25

June 21

Question 26

What is it called when the sun does not set in the North Pole from March 20-September 23 and then there is continuous daylight occurs during that time in the South Pole? Does this affect US?

Answer 26

Midnight sun;yes,Alaska

Question 27

What are the low latitudes?

Answer 27

Between the tropics

Question 28

What are the high latitudes?

Answer 28

Polar areas(south pole, North Pole, arctic)

Question 29

What are prevailing winds?

Answer 29

Global winds that blow in fairly constant patterns

Question 30

Where are the doldrums? What so unique about them?

Answer 30

Located at the equator; they are windless

Question 31

What is the Coriolanus effect?

Answer 31

Ocean currents flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere

Question 32

What is the El Niño?

Answer 32

A periodic reversal of the pattern of the ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-pacific region

Question 33

What are five themes of geography?

Answer 33

Location, place, movement, region, and human/environment interaction