Lesson 1 Flashcards
What do Geographers look at the world at three levels?
Local level
Regional level
Global level
Blank looks to find relationships among people who live far apart.
Global level
What does geographers tools include?
Map, globes, satellite images, notebooks, tape recorders.
True or false. Showing round earth on a flat maps will distort some details.
True
What does place mean?
Describes features that make a site unique.
Landscape
Features that define the area and make it different from other places.
Region
A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding area’s.
What is the 2 most fields on geography?
Physical geography
Human geography
Cartography
Science of making maps.
Earth axis
And imaginary rod through north and south poles.
Blank result From earths rotation.
Night and day
Revolution
Earths trip around the sun.
What does the earths tilt do?
Creates the change in season.
True or false. The northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons.
True
Latitude
The distance north or south of the equator.
The main process of the water cycle is?
Evaporation and precipitation
Droughts
A long periods of lower than normal precipitation.
What is the theory of continental draft?
Continentals used to be united in one single supercontinent.
What are two continental plates that seem to have collided?
Eurasian plate and India plate
True or false. Earthquakes often occur when two plates slide past each other.
True
What does Earth glaciers can cause?
Erosion
Front
A place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.
Blank can be of any size and can occur when ever air, water and soil, support life.
Ecosystems
Blank identify climates by looking at temperature, precipitation, and native Plant live.
Geographers