The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is geography?
100
A.Cinder Cone, Composite, Shield, and Lava
and
B. Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary
What is type of Volcanoes and types of Rocks?
100
The reason for the seasons. Summer happens in the hemisphere tilted towards the Sun, and winter happens in the hemisphere tilted away from the Sun. ... At the equator there are no seasons because each day the Sun strikes at about the same angle.
What is the tilting of the Earth?
100
The Earth's shape is Oblate and the size is 3,959 mi.
What is True?
100
A look at the natural processes of the Earth, such as climate and plate tectonics. B looks at the impact and behavior of people and how they relate to the physical world.
What is physical and human geography?
200
A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
What is Map?
200
Idea that the universe may have been created in a huge explosion at least 12 billion years ago.
What is Big Bang Theory?
200
The number of daylight hours per day
What is daylength?
200
Explain the difference between Space and Place.
Space is something abstract, without any substantial meaning. While place refers to how people are aware of/attracted to a certain piece of space. A place can be seen as space that has a meaning. The underlying theory for this way of thinking is the phenomenology, which tries to find the essential features of experiences in the direct and indirect experiences.
200
Areas that are distinguished from each other and classified within groups : formal, functional and vernacular
What are Regions?
300
The two sub-layers of the earth's crust (lithosphere) that move, float, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continental drift, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and oceanic trenches.
What is tectonic plates?
300
Weathering ( Mechanical and Chemical), mass movement, and erosional agents and deposition
What is Gradational Processes?
300
The radiation, or energy we get from the sun. It is also known as short-wave radiation.
What is Solar Radiation ?
300
Pictures of Earth's surfaces or a primary tool by which spatial relationships are visualized. Types include political, physical, topographic, climate, economic/resource, road, or thematic.
Must include a legend and scale.
What is Maps?
300
Frontal, Convectional, and Orographic!
What is Precipitation types?
400
A natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body
What is landform?
400
A is the idea that when a cloud of gas and dust in space was disturbed, maybe by the explosion of a nearby star (called a supernova). This explosion made waves in space which squeezed the cloud of gas and dust.
B resulted fromthe process known as runaway accretion, successively larger fragments of dust and debris clumped together
What is the formation of the solar system and Earth?
400
A. A body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority
B. The largest human grouping characterized by a common origin or ancestry. A territorially based community of people who usually have similar language or religion, a common history (real or imagined), and accepted social ways of behavior that give it a common culture
C. A state that has the same boundaries as a nation.
What is State, Nation, and Nation-State?
400
1. The synchronization of clocks within a geographical area or region to a single time standard, rather than using solar time or a locally chosen meridian (longitude) to establish a local mean time standard.
2. The imaginary line on Earth's surface defining the boundary between one day and the next.
3.The practice of turning the clock ahead as warmer weather approaches and back as it becomes colder again so that people will have one more hour of daylight in the afternoon and evening during the warmer season of the year.
What is Standard Time System, The International Date Line, The Daylight Saving Time?
400
Growth Domestic Product, GDP per Capita, Developed, devleoping, and underveloped; Economic sectors; First, Second, and Third Worlds
What is concepts of Economic Geography?
500
Intensified geographical movements across national borders of commodities, people seeking employment, money and capital investment, knowledge, cultural values, and environmental pollutants.
What is Globalization?
500
A is a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust.
B is a a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
What is Earthquakes and Tsunamis?
500
The Westphalia Treaty, Rousseau, Napoleon, Romanticism, The European Expansion and the Conquest of Africa, Woodrow Wilson,Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
What is the historical evolution of the nation-state?
500
What are two types of location? Explain.
Location is absolute which includes latitude and longitude.
Relative location refers to locating a place relative to other landmarks.
500
A. Occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopters (or infected, in the case of a disease)
B. Involves the actual movement of the original adopters from their point of origin, or hearth, to a new place
C. Occurs when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern