Introduction
Techniques of Geo Analysis
Landforms
Weather & Climate
Grab Bag
100
A street address represents this type of location.
What is absolute location?
100
The law that established the township and range survey system.
What is The Land Ordinance of 1785?
100
A destructive sea wave resulting from seismic activity.
What is a tsunami?
100
The type of cloud from which heavy rain falls.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
100
The process by which radiation from the sun reaches the earths surface.
What is insolation?
200
The type of region that has clearly defined (often political) boundaries.
What is a formal region?
200
The kind of map that shows landscape and cultural features but especially elevation through the use of contour lines.
What is a topographic map?
200
A divergent plate boundary in the mid-Atlantic Ocean broke apart these two continents that fit like a glove.
What are South American and Africa?
200
The precipitation type associated with mountains.
What is orographic?
200
Coal and petroleum occur in which type of rock?
What is sedimentary?
300
The type of region that exists without formal boundaries but is strong in the minds of its residents or observers i.e. The South
What is a vernacular region?
300
Because it is an attempt to show 3D space on a 2D surface, this will always include some level of distortion.
What is a map projection?
300
The rock commonly found in regions of Karst topography.
What is limestone?
300
The degree of tilt of the earth's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
300
The landform that results from an occurrence of "mass movement"
What is a talus?
400
The name for the feeling that a journey is longer (or shorter) than expected.
What is psychological distance?
400
The name for the vertical spacing between contour lines reflecting the change in elevation.
What is a contour interval?
400
rock type formed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions
What is metamorphic?
400
The layer of atmosphere that contains nearly all of the air, clouds, and precipitation.
What is the troposphere?
400
When cool air at lower altitudes becomes trapped under a layer of warm air up high.
What is a temperature inversion?
500
He coined the term "Geography"
Who is Eratosthenes?
500
The base lines of latitude and longitude in our coordinate system.
What are the equator and the prime meridian?
500
Oxidation, hydrolysis, and carbonation are all forms of this.
What is chemical weathering?
500
The lapse rate.
What is 3.5 degrees/1000ft
500
The landform at the mouth of a heavily silted stream.
What is a delta?
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