Mr.Lip
& Geography Intro
& Geography Intro
The two broad categories of geography study.
What are physical and human?
The first item to look at on any map, table, or chart.
What is the title?
The line that separates North from South on a globe or a map.
What is the Equator?
The most important factor affecting climate of an area.
What is latitude in terms of climate?
This Biome has high ranges of temperatures and gets less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is a desert?
The R in Mr.Lip, it can be split into formal, functional, and perceptual.
What are regions?
When a map was made, and who made it.
What are the date and the author?
(Also acceptable: the type of person who makes maps = What is a cartographer?)
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.
What are types of plate boundaries?
Very dense vegetation in areas of latitudes zero to 28 degrees from the Equator.
What is a tropical rainforest?
An exact spot in the world, or pinpoint on a map, can be designated by coordinates or GPS.
What is absolute location?
The directions of NSEW using a compass rose on a map.
What is orientation?
The line that separates West from East on a globe or map.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The lines of latitude and lines of longitude on a map create this.
What is a geographic grid?
Grasslands with a rainy season and dry season, and most of the world's large land mammals make their homes in this type of biome.
What is a savannah?
The theme of geography regarding when humans modify(change), adapt to, or depend on their environment. (I in Mr. Lip)
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
How big the area shown in a map is, compared to the area in real life.
What is scale?
The earth's tilt on an axis and the revolution around the sun causes this (one hemisphere is pointed toward or away from the sun & its direct light energy).
What causes the seasons?
The type of map showing lines of elevation (wavy lines showing contour of land).
What is a topographical map?
Icy cold, only a little vegetation growth, located at poles (high latitudes).
What is a tundra?
The feeling of an area, town, state, or country and the things that it is known for - the type of food, language, dress, habits & customs. (P in Mr. Lip)
What is place?
The imaginary lines on globes or maps which tell how far a location is north or south.
What are lines of latitude?
A combined graph that shows a line for temperature and a bar graph for amount of precipitation in a region.
What is a climograph?
The affect a mountain or mountain range has on precipitation (rain, snow, etc.). (Hint: windward side is wet, leeward side is dry.)
What is the orographic affect?
This Biome has an average temperature of 50˚F; it gets 30 – 60 in. of rainfall per year, and the four true seasons are mild.
What is a deciduous forest?