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Geography 1 - Foundational Skills Flashcards

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An angular distance north or south of the Earth’s equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.

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Latitude

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An angular distance east or west of the Earth’s equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.

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Longitude

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A circle on the surface of a sphere whose plane passes through the center. It represents the shortest distance between two points.

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Great Circle

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North, south, east, and west.

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Cardinal Directions

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Helps a person read a map by explaining the symbols and/or colors used on the map.

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Legend

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An object showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.

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Compass Rose

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The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the surface of the Earth.

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Scale

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A map that depicts land configuration, including elevation.

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Relief

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Collective term for lines of latitude and longitude that form an imaginary grid over Earth’s surface, making it possible to locate a specific point.

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Grid System

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24 longitudinal divisions of the globe, roughly 15 degrees wide, in which clocks show the same time.

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Time Zones

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Lines of latitude and longitude are mapped as horizontal and vertical lines. Distortion is greater in high latitudes.

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Cylindrical Projections

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Reduces distortion in shape and area near tangent or secant parallels.

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Conic Projections

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Projects onto a plane. Directions from a central point are preserved. Great circles through central point are straight lines.

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Azimuthal Projections

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an imaginary line about which a body rotates.

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Axis

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move in a circle on a central axis.

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Revolve/ Revolution

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A specific pairing of latitude and longitude on a coordinate grid.

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Absolute Location

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A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.

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GIS – Geographic Information System

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A point on the earth in relation to another point or place.

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Relative location

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A navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location anywhere in the world.

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GPS – Global Positioning System

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A set of closely grouped islands.

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Archipelago

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A ring of low-lying islands

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Atoll

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An inlet of the sea where the land curves inward

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Bay

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A deep, narrow valley with steep slopes, usually with a river running through it.

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Canyon

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A point of land that extends into the water.

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Cape

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A wide waterway between two close, large landmasses.

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channel

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A sheltered coastal inlet, smaller than a bay.

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cove

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A fan shaped area where a river meets a larger body of water. Land builds up from river sediments.

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Delta

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An area where freshwater from a river or stream meets the ocean, and the water mixes.

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Estuary

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A long, narrow, inlet from the sea between steep slopes of a mountainous coast.

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Fjord

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A flat area next to a river, formed by river sediments and subject to flooding

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Floodplain

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A large area of sea or ocean, partially enclosed by land.

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Gulf

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An area of land surrounded by a body of water.

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Island

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The part of a river that meets a larger body of water; lake, sea, ocean.

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Mouth (of a River)

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A piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water, but connected to the mainland.

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Peninsula

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A lowland area between mountains or highlands. Formed by separation of continental plates.

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Rift Valley

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A body of water partially or fully enclosed by land, usually connected to the ocean.

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Sea

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A long, wide inlet of the ocean.

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Sound

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A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.

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Strait

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A stream that feeds into a larger stream or river.

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Tributary

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Plates of land which float on and travel over Earth’s mantle.

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Tectonic Plates

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The region of Earth’s interior between the crust and core.

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Mantle

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The outermost solid shell of our planet.

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Lithosphere

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Molten rock from the mantle

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Magma

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The theory that the continents were once connected and the plates slowly separated.

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Continental Drift

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The scientist who first theorized about Continental Drift

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Alfred Wegener

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An underwater mountain range, where plates diverge and the sea floor spreads

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Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Where a dense ocean plate collides with a lighter continental plate. The heavier plate gets pushed below into the mantle.

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Subduction Zones

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the breakdown of the materials of Earth’s crust into smaller pieces.

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Weathering

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A massive chain of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean

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Ring of Fire

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The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil.

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Erosion

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rock and soil fragments.

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Sediment

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large masses of rock are physically broken into smaller pieces.

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Physical

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the laying down of sediments in a new location.

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Deposition

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changes the chemical makeup of rocks (rocks dissolve in acidic environments. Many caves have been formed this way.)

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Chemical

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Wind carries small particles of dust, sand, and soil from one place to another.

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Wind Erosion

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Glaciers are large bodies of ice that move across Earth’s surface. They are formed over time as layers of snow press together and turn into ice.

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Glacial Erosion

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removes vegetation from the land and leads to soil erosion.

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Deforestation

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Water erosion begins when spring water and rainwater flow downhill in streams, cutting into the land and wearing away soil and rock.

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Water Erosion

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lines longitude

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lines latitude

54
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Rearrange these steps that lead to precipitation: (Think about cause and effect)

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  1. Air mass cools
  2. Air mass rises
  3. Water vapor condenses (clouds form)

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