Chapter 2 - Our World And Its Heritage Flashcards
What are biomes?
The world’s major environment types consisting of both plant and animal communities that are uniquely adapted to the particular environment.
What is criteria?
A standard for judging something.
What is degradation?
The wearing down of the natural environment through human actions of by natural processes.
What is the Equator?
An imaginary line that runs around the middle of the Earth separating the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
What are human environments?
Environments that have been changed by people.
What is insulation?
The amount of solar energy received on the Earth’s surface.
What is the International Date Line?
The meridian of longitude at which the date changes.
What is an international treaty?
An agreement between nations for a common purpose.
What is latitude and longitude?
A grid system on a map that helps to locate places on the Earth’s surface.
What is a map projection?
A representation of the Earth’s curved surface drawn on a flat piece of paper.
What are the meridians of longitude?
Grid lines that run around the world from North to South.
What are the parallels of latitude?
Grid lines that run around the world from East to West.
What are physical environments?
Mostly made up of natural features like air, water, rock and soils, and living things.
What is the Prime Meridian?
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole passing through Greenwich, and from which other lines of longitude are measured.
What is UNESCO?
A branch of the United Nations the is involved in protecting and managing World Heritage sites.
What is an atlas?
A collection of maps showing different parts of the world.
What 3 features are shown on every world map?
Continents, oceans, a grid system.
List the 7 continents and 5 oceans.
Continents: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Antarctica.
Oceans: Indian, Southern, Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic.
What percentage of the Earth’s surface is land?
29%.
What percentage of the Earth’s surface is water?
71%.
What are the five main lines of latitude?
Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle.
What is the problem with world maps?
The Earth is round, and it is hard to represent an entire round object on a flat piece of paper.
What are 4 ways to represent a world map?
Cylindrical, Conical, Azimuthal, Interrupted.
