Chapter 1

Question 1

Geography:

Answer 1

the study of where people and places and things are located and how they are related to each other

Question 2

GIS:

Answer 2

a geographical information system that uses computer thechnology to collect manipulate, analyze, and display data about the Earth’s surface in order to solve problems

Question 3

absolute location:

Answer 3

a thing’s posistion on the globe

Question 4

hemispheres:

Answer 4

the halves that are split North anda South be the equator

Question 5

relative location:

Answer 5

the location in relation compared to other places

Question 6

character of a place:

Answer 6

a places physical’s and human characteristics

Question 7

perception:

Answer 7

a viewpoint that is influcenced by one;s own culture and expirence

Question 8

formal region:

Answer 8

areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area

areas that are the same

Question 9

functional region:

Answer 9

a group of places that is defined by movment

something that effects something else

Question 10

perceptual region:

Answer 10

a group of places that is defined by people;s feelings and attitude

Question 11

core:

Answer 11

the Earth’s center consisting of very hot metal that is dense and solid in the inner core and molten or liquid in the outer core

Question 12

mantle:

Answer 12

a thick layer of mostly solid rock beneath the Earth’s crust that surronds the Earth’s core

Question 13

crust:

Answer 13

the rocky surface layer

5-30 miles thick

Question 14

lithosphere:

Answer 14

surface features, like landforms

stuff on the Earth

Question 15

atmosphere:

Answer 15

the above surface features

stuff above the Earth (including water and air)

Question 16

hydrosphere:

Answer 16

Water

Question 17

biosphere:

Answer 17

the world of animals, plants, and other living things

Question 18

continent:

Answer 18

a large land mass in the ocean

Question 19

reflief:

Answer 19

the differnece in elevation between the highest and lowest point

Question 20

plate tectonics:

Answer 20

a number of moving plates in the outershell

reason for earthquakes

Question 21

continental drift theory:

Answer 21

an idea propsed by Alfed Wegner that there was once a super continent that drifted apart

Question 22

Ring of Fire:

Answer 22

a circle of volcanoes surronding the Pacific ocean

Question 23

weathering:

Answer 23

the breakdown of rock at or near the Earth;s surface into smaller and smaller pieces

Question 24

mechanical weathering:

Answer 24

occurs when rock is actually broken or weakened physically

Question 25

chemical weathering:

Answer 25

alters the rock chemical make-up by changing the minerals that form the rock or combining them with new chemical elements

found in caves

Question 26

acid rain:

Answer 26

chemicals in the polluted air combined with water vapor wand fall back to earth as acid rain

Question 27

erosion:

Answer 27

the movement of weathered materials including gravel, soil, and sand usually caused by wind, water, and glaciers

Question 28

sediment:

Answer 28

particless of soil, sand, and gravel carried or deposited by wind,and water

Question 29

ioess:

Answer 29

fine grained mineral rich, loam, dust, or silt deposited by the wind

Question 30

glacier:

Answer 30

a huge, slow moving mass of snow and ice

Question 31

moraine:

Answer 31

a ridge like mass of rock, gravel, sand, and clay carried and deposited by glaciers