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Unit:1 Geography (Terminology) Flashcards

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What is latitude and longitude

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coordinates that help determine the location of any place on Earth

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What is altitude

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The height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level.

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What are physical characteristics

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Physical characteristics include land forms, climate, soil, and natural vegetation.

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What is Pangea

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A supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth

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What is a Craton

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The segment of the Earth’s continents that have remained tectonically stable and relatively earthquake free for a vast period of time.

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What is Laurentia

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Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton

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What is magma

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Magma is extremely hot liquid and semi-liquid rock located under Earth’s surface.

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What is subduction

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Subduction occours when plates collide and one plate is forced over another = earthquakes, mountain formations. volcanoes.

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What is divergence

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Divergence occurs where plates pull apart from one another = new land created

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What is Transform

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A type of fault in which two tectonic plates slide past one another.

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What is Precipitation

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Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth

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What is convectional precipitation

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Convectional rainfall occurs when the heated air from the earth’s surface rises upwards along with the water vapour and gets condensed when it reaches a higher altitude.

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What is Orographic precipitation

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Orographic precipitation is produced when moist air is lifted as it moves over a mountain range.

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What is Frontal precipitation

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This is when cold air meets warm air in a ‘weather front’. Warm air rises, so when it bumps into the cold air, it rises above it.

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What is Continental

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A climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent.

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What is maritime

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A climate influenced by nearby ocean, typically a more temperate climate with higher precipitation

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What is climate

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The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

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What is weather

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The state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place

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What is a Climograph/Climate Graph

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A climograph is a graphical representation of a location’s basic climate. Climographs display data for two variables: (a) monthly average temperature and (b) monthly average precipitation.

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What is a biome

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An ecological community of plants and animals extending over a large area

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What is an ecozone

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A classification system that defines different parts of the environment with similar geography, vegetation and animal life.

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What is an ecosystem

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A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment

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What is a food web

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A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

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What is monoculture

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The cultivation and reliance on a single crop

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What is biodiversity

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Biodiversity is all the different kinds of life you’ll find in one area—the variety of animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms like bacteria that make up our natural world

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What is a cultural environment

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Environments that have been used and altered by humans.

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What is boom and bust

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A situation in which a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth is abruptly followed by one of economic decline.

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What is topography

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The topography of a particular area is its physical shape, including its hills, valleys, and rivers.

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What is population Density

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Population density is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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What is population distribution

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A measure of how spread out a population is in any given area

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What is rural

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Housing and basic services (Fire dept, Police etc.)

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What is urban

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Housing and extended services (Mall, theatre, university etc.)

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What is light intensity

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Light intensity is a measurement of the amount of power either emitted or reflected by a source.

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