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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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1
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A people’s way of life, including their political, economic, religious, lingual, social, intellectual, and artistic practices and beliefs: culture or environmentalism

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Culture

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A concern to protect the natural environment, especially from harmful human activity: multiculturalism or environmentalism

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Environmentalism

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The view that all cultures are equally good and that each culture has its own truth and values that those in other cultures must always except as valid: semi culturalism or multiculturalism

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Multiculturalism

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The most basic tool of geography

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A map

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Two main branches of geography

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Physical geography and human geography

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The first writer to use the term geography: Cesar Agustus or Eratosthenes

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Eratosthenes

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A regular pattern of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines

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Grid

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Greek philosopher who used grids on a map

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Hipparchus

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He published an argument for a heliocentric, sun centered, theory of the universe: Mercator or Copernicus

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Copernicus

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The art of mapmaking: geocentric or cartography

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Cartography

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In 1569, he published a world map with lines and grids that became the standard of his day: Mercator or Columbus

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Mercator

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Detailed land features on a map including their elevations: topography or histography

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Typography

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Points on a map, based on latitude and longitude: degrees or designations

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Degrees

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The middle line of longitude that runs from north to south: the prime meridian or the Greenwich line

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The prime meridian

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Together with the prime meridian, The 180° meridian creates the: great circle or great span

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Great circle

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Any method used to show the earths round surface on a flat map: a globe or map projection

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Map projection

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When a globe is transferred onto a flat map serious problem of this occurs: inertia or distortion

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Distortion

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A typical globe is covered by 12 paper strips called: gores or directions

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Gores

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This type of map projection minimizes all four types of distortion: Robinson’s projection or millers map

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Robinson’s projection

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This map shows mountains, rivers, lakes, elevation, and other natural features: climate map or physical map

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Physical map

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This map indicates state or national boundaries, capitals, and major cities: road map or political map

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Political map

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This symbol on a map shows the directions and whether the top of the map is north, south, east, or west: GIS or compass rose

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Compass rose

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This is a marked line on a map that indicates distance. Example: 1 inch equals 200 miles. Scale or relief

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Scale

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This is the height and depth of land features in relation to the surrounding land marked on a map: relief or region

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Relief

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Small monuments or markers that have been placed in key spots around the world to give the exact altitude of a location: benchmarks or Contor lines

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Benchmarks

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The lines at separate colors on a relief map: contour lines or diagram markers

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Contour lines

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The violent upheaval or change in the earth’s crust: cataclysm or tsunami

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Cataclysm

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The three parts of the earth’s surface

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Atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere

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Every variation in the landscape is called: a hill or a landform

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Landform

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These are wide areas of level land: plains or rangers

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Plains

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Wide areas of flat land that rise abruptly above surrounding lands: hills or plateaus

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Plateaus

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Transported by water running down from the mountains, these deposits of sediment settle in the flat plains: alluvium or bacteria

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Alluvium

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The main river and all of its tributaries are called: a river span or a river system

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A river system

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Longest river in the US

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Mississippi river

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The amount of water from rivers that flows into the ocean: drain water or discharge

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Discharge

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The total land area drained by the main river and its tributaries: a drainage basin or swamp

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Drainage basin

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Spongy areas that look dry but are covered with a wet organic materials: river or bog

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Bog

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An area with visible standing water, grasses, and small plants like the Everglades: marsh or harbor

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Marsh

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Like a marsh but covered with large trees like Cypress and mangrove: swamp or downstream

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Swamp

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The theory that plates crash into and pull apart from one another, releasing energy from the earth’s interior and causing earthquakes and volcanoes

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Plate tectonics theory

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Deep cracks in the earth’s surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions: craters or faults

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Faults

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Deep cracks and upward bends in the earth’s surface

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Faulting and folding

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A possible supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

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Pangaea

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The breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, temperature changes, and ice and mineral crystals: hummus or weathering

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Weathering

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After weathering breaks down rock into small pieces, those materials are removed by: erosion or internal forces

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Erosion

46
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The most powerful form of erosion

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Running water

47
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This greatly influences wind direction around the earth due to its rotation: Coriolis effect or low pressure

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Coriolis effect

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These winds occur near tropical islands and are constantly warm: total winds or trade winds

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Trade winds

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Winds blowing from the east

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Easterlies

50
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Three basic biomes

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Forests, grasslands, and waste lands

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Areas of land that are barren most of the year because of low amounts of precipitation: savannas or wastelands

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Wastelands

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