Unit 1
a railroad system is an example of this
What is functional region?
How we measure coordinates on the earth
What are degrees, minutes and seconds?
A new method to drill for natural gas and oil
What is fracking or hydraulic fracturing?
When writing absolute location using coordinates, you write which first latitude or longitude?
What is latitude?
Lines drawn north to south and measures east to west
What are longitude lines?
Uses "next to, aronud the corner, north of, Route 82"
What is relative location?
a map of natural resources
What is an economic map?
Build up of salt in the soil
What is soil salinization?
This word means connecting like Penssylvania is connected to Delaware
What is contiguous?
Water that can not be replenished by rain
What is fossil water?
Toxic chemicals were buried in a community
What is Love Canal?
Cross over it and go ahead or go back a day
What is the International Dateline?
planting the same crop inthe same field every year leads to this
What is soil exhaustion?
this is happening to the world's rainforest
What is deforestation?
resource that can be replenished
What is renewable resource?
Uses degrees of latitude/longitude for location
What is absolute location?
Created thegrid system
Who are the Greeks?
artificial channels to transport water
What is aquaduct?
Chemicals that attach to rain droplets
What is acid rain?
Location of place to store nuclear waste
What is Yucca Mountain?
Human and Physical
What are the branches of geography?
if it is 4 PM in California, it is what time in Philadelphia?
What is 7 PM?
element used for nuclear energy
What is uranium?
Using up of resources
What is consumption?
Worst nuclear disaster
What is Chernobyl?