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Climate
Earth *Hardest Category
Geographer's Tools
100
The sphere of very hot metal at the center of the Earth.
What is (the) core?
100
A huge block of Earth's crust.
What is (a) plate?
100
The kind of climate depends on this.
What is location?
100
The surface of the crust includes these.
What are land areas and ocean floors?
100
By doing this, mapmakers could show the continents and oceans of Earth as they really are.
What is (by) using an accurate shape for Earth?
200
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
200
The average weather over many years.
What is climate?
200
*Pg. 50-53 Each climate has its own types of this.
What is natural vegetation?
200
The latitude Oklahoma's located in.
What is (the) Middle Latitude?
200
The Mercator's map help them do this.
What is help(ing) sailors navigate?
300
Deciduous Trees.
What is trees that lose their leaves seasonally.
300
A way to map Earth on a flat surface.
What is projection?
300
3 things that help shape climate.
What are oceans, mountains, latitudes, location, and wind. *All these are possible answers
300
The latitudes.
What is Low Latitudes (the Tropics), The Middle Latitudes (Temperate zones), and High Latitudes (Polar zones).
300
The name of the person who designed THE ROBINSON PROJECT.
Who is Arthur Robinson?
400
An imaginary line through Earth between the North and South poles, around which Earth turns.
What is (an) axis?
400
A diagram of a ******* showing direction. *astrics= obvious clue.
What is compass rose?
400
The two main climates in the tropics.
What are TROPICAL WET CLIMATE & TROPICAL WET AND DRY CLIMATE?
400
When this takes place, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted farthest from the sun.
What is the summer solstice?
400
GIS. (What it is, not what the letters stand for).
What is computer-based system that links information to locations?
500
The removal of small pieces of rock by water, wind, ice: A. Weathering B. Alluvial C. Erosion
What is C.?
500
An intense wind & rain storm that forms over oceans in the tropics: A. Tropical Depression B. Tropical Cyclone C. Tropical Storm
What is B.?
500
The way climate affects vegetation.
What is different plants requiring different amounts of water, sunlight, and different temperatures to survive?
500
Earth has this many standard time zones: A. 23 B. 24 C. 26
What is 24 (standard time zones)?
500
Photographs of Earth's surface taken from the air. A. Aerial Photographs B. Area Photographs C. Air Photographs
What is A.?
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