.s.s. chap 1 Flashcards
What are the 7 continents?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica and Austrailia
What are the 5 oceans?
Pacific, Indian, Antarctic, Arctic and Atlantic
What is Geography?
The study of earth and its people.
How long is a decade?
10 years
what is a century?
100 years
What is a millennium?
1000 years
What is a globe?
A round model of the earth that shows its shape, lands and directions as they truly relate to one another.
What is a map?
A flat drawing of all or part of earths surface.
Name the 4 types of map projections.
Goodes Interrupted Equal-Area Projection
Robinson Projection
Mercator Projection
Winkel Tripel Projection
Which imaginary lines run east to west around the globe?
Latitude
Which imaginary lines run north to south around the globe?
longitude
What do we call the line that divides the earth into the western and eastern hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What do we call the line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?
Equator
The North Pole is located at______degrees north.
90
The South Pole is located at ______degrees south.
90
Everything east of the Prime Meridian is______degrees, and west of the Prime Meridian is_______degrees. Which makes the earth a full____-degrees.
180,180,360
Name the 7 parts of a map
Title, Key, Scale Bar, Compass Rose, Cities, Capitals and Boundary Lines
Name the inner planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Name the outer planets
Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus and Neptune
How do the inner and outer planets differ?
The outer planets are larger and composed mostly or entirely of gases
Define Solar Sysyem
The earth, seven other major planets,and thousands of smaller bodies that revolve around the sun.
What is axis?
An imaginary line that passes through the center of the earth from the North Pole to South Pole.
How long does it take for the earth to complete a rotation?
24 hours
It takes the earth how long to revolve around the sun?
365 1/4 days
Explain why we have a leap year.
Every four years the extra fourths of a day are combined and added to the calendar as Feb. 29th.
Define Atmosphere
The layer of oxygen and gases that surrounds earth.
The earth is tilted_______degrees on its axis.
23 1/2
Why do we have season
The tilt of the earth
Which rays bring warmth?
direct
Describe summer solstice.
In Northern Hemisphere this day has the most hours of sunlight
Describe winter solstice.
In Northern Hemisphere this day has the fewest hours of sunlight at the beginning of winter
Describe the autumn and spring equinoxes.
The days that have equal amount of day and night.
How might latitude affect the population of a region?
The warmer latitude would attract more people and the colder latitude would hinder people from living there.
Why is geography so important for us to study today?
so we can know about our world and its people and their cultures
Define absolute location
It is the exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found.
What is relative location?
what feature is in relation to surroundings.
Name and define the 5 themes of Geography.
Location-the position of a place on the earths surface.
Place-describes the characteristics of a location that make it unique.
Human Environment Interaction- how people affect their environment affects them.
Movement-how and why people,ideas and goods move from place to place.
Regions-area of land on earths surface that have several common characteristics.
What is the difference between physical geography and human geography?
Physical geography is the study of earths physical features.
Human geography is the study of humans and their way of life.
How are satellites important to geographers today?
They help us see what is in space and they take pictures of earth.
What is GPS and what is it used for?
Global Positioning System. It gives exact location
What is a GIS and what is it used for?
Geographic Information System, Computer software that gathers, stores and analyzes geographic information.
What things will we find on a political map
political boundaries of countries.cities and transportation routes.
What thing will we find on a physical map?
elevation
What is the difference in a small scale and large scale map?
A small scale map shows large land area but little detail. A large scale map shows small land areas with a lot of detail.
What is a rotation?
to spin on axis
What is a revolution?
one complete circuit around the sun.
