GEO EXAM

Question 1

Map

Answer 1

a representation of the earths features drawn on a flate surface

Question 2

most accurate way to portray the earth

Answer 2

globe

Question 3

mercator

Answer 3

suited for navigation

Question 4

peters

Answer 4

suited for accuracy

Question 5

balance

Answer 5

robinson

Question 6

1:50 000

Answer 6

1=distance on map 50 000=distance irl

Question 7

rf scale

Answer 7

1:20 000 000

Question 8

direct statement

Answer 8

1cm=200km

Question 9

internation date line

Answer 9

runs through russia 180 degrees

Question 10

prime meridian

Answer 10

runs through england 0 degrees

Question 11

equator

Answer 11

just below skull, on the tip of south america

Question 12

theory of continental drift

Answer 12

alfred wegner, pangaea

Question 13

evidence of pangaea

Answer 13

jigsaw fit, rock formation, fossils, glacial flow

Question 14

earths structure

Answer 14

crust, mantle, outer core, inner core,

Question 15

lithosphere

Answer 15

makes up crust and upper mantle, divided into plates

Question 16

asthenosphere

Answer 16

hot malleable semiliquid, under lithosphere

Question 17

continental crust

Answer 17

under continents, 20-40 miles thick

Question 18

oceanic crust

Answer 18

under ocean, 4-6 miles thick

Question 19

3 boundaries

Answer 19

convergent-together-mountains
divergent-sliding apart-sea floor spreading
transform-sliding past-earthquakes

Question 20

3 types of convergent boundaries

Answer 20

continental-continental-mountains
continental-oceanic-subduction-volcanoes
oceanic-oceanic-subduction-trenches

Question 21

subduction

Answer 21

ocean plate is being pulled under another plate

Question 22

convection current

Answer 22

what pulls plates around

Question 23

climate

Answer 23

types of weather a place experiances over a long term

Question 24

how latitude affects climate

Answer 24

different latitudes affect how much sun hits them which will make it warmer

Question 25

how altitude affects climate

Answer 25

higher is colder-less pressure less heat

Question 26

ocean currents

Answer 26

temperature of the ocean affects the air that passes over it

Question 27

low pressure

Answer 27

warm air rising

Question 28

high pressure

Answer 28

warm air cooling and then falling back down

Question 29

land breezes

Answer 29

wind that comes from land onto sea during night

Question 30

sea breezes

Answer 30

wind that comes from sea onto land during day

Question 31

sustainability

Answer 31

meeting needs now without wrecking furture and their needs

Question 32

primary industy

Answer 32

getting the raw materials-mining

Question 33

secondary industry

Answer 33

taking the raw material and finishing it-factories

Question 34

tertiary

Answer 34

selling finished products-grocery stores

Question 35

quaternary

Answer 35

research, developementm technology, managment

Question 36

basic jobs

Answer 36

not local jobs, money not coming from customers-mining, get their money from people buying items that come from mines

Question 37

non basic jobs

Answer 37

local, people get money from local customers-restaurant servers get money straight from customers

Question 38

underground mining

Answer 38

used to get minerals deep in earth

Question 39

open pit mining

Answer 39

used to get minerals closer to surface

Question 40

strip mining

Answer 40

used to get minerals in horizontal layers at surface

Question 41

tailings

Answer 41

waste left over from processing ore

Question 42

smelting

Answer 42

metals are removed from ore and used for industries

Question 43

milling

Answer 43

processing ore

Question 44

source of hydro

Answer 44

river

Question 45

advantages of hydro

Answer 45

cheap to opperate, no pollution, renewable

Question 46

disadvantages of hydro

Answer 46

expensive to build, far from where needed

Question 47

source of thermal

Answer 47

steam from burning fossil fuels

Question 48

advantages of thermal

Answer 48

where needed, less expensive

Question 49

disadvantages of thermal

Answer 49

fuel costs, non-renewable

Question 50

source of nuclear

Answer 50

heated from nuclear fission

Question 51

advantages of nuclear

Answer 51

where needed, cheap, no pollution

Question 52

disadvantages of nuclear

Answer 52

hazardous, useful like is short

Question 53

5 requierments for a map

Answer 53

title, legend, directions, date of publication, borders

Question 54

how are volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate boundaries all realted

Answer 54

they all occur because of plate movement

Question 55

7 landforms

Answer 55

canadian sheild, appalichains, western cordillera, innuitians, interior plains, hudson bay and arctice lowlands, great lakes and st lawrence lowlands

Question 56

industries in the canadian sheild, lowlands, highlands

Answer 56

canadian sheild-mining, forestry lowlands-forestry, farming highlands-fishing, hunting

Question 57

what happens to the amount of moisture air can hold as it goes up a mountian

Answer 57

decreases becasue it condenses into clouds

Question 58

3 catagories of minerals

Answer 58

metallic-hematite fossile fuels-coal industrial-limestone

Question 59

geological mapping

Answer 59

maps that show different rock formations

Question 60

geophysical tests

Answer 60

magnetometer

Question 61

geochemical tests

Answer 61

map is made based on minerals found

Question 62

why have global fisheries collaped

Answer 62

over fishing change of environment lack of fish