God's Gift to Man
What is geography?
Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
Who was the scientist who created the climate classification chart?
Wladimir Koopen.
Who are God's special creation?
Mankind
What is cartography?
Cartography is the art of making maps.
Name three renewable resources.
Water, soil, air, tress, energy (waterpower, geothermal, wind, solar)
Name the earth's hemispheres.
North, South, East, and West.
Name some factors that help to determine the climate of a region.
Latitude, wind patters, ocean currents, precipitation, elevation.
What is the most important cultural factor in any culture?
Religion
Name some tools geographers use to collect data.
Direct observation, aerial photographs, census.
Type of climate that is always hot.
Tropical climate.
Name at least five landforms.
Mountains, hills, plateaus, mesas, buttes, valleys, plains, deltas, estuaries, peninsulas, islands, isthmuses.
Type of climate that is always cold.
Polar climate
Name the basic forms of government.
Theocracy, Autocracy (Monarchy and Dictatorship), Democracy (Direct, Republic, Constitutional)
This term refers to a scale model of the earth which shows actual shapes, sizes, and locations.
Globe
Name the four oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic.
Name the seven continents.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia.
Explain the difference between weather and climate.
Weather involves the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere in a localized area during a short period of time. Climate involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region.
Which is the second most important factor in a culture?
Language
What is a map?
A map is a fat representation of the earth or a portion of the earth.
Name some symbols use in maps.
Title, scale, directional indicator, legend.
Explain the steps of the hydrologic cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Type of climate that has seasonal extremes.
Continental climate
Which are the three types of economic income?
Agrarian, industrial, and technological.
Name some map projections.
Mercator, Mollweide, Robinson, Azimuthal
Explain the difference between good stewardship and environmental extremism.
Good good stewardship is according to God's will and environmental extremism is in man's sinful viewpoint.