Physical
What are the 3 parts of Physical Geography?
Climate, Landforms, Ecosystems
What are the 2 biggest reasons people would NOT farm in a region?
Temperature is too low or not enough water
mechanized farming
using machines to farm
How did the Ice Ages affect the modern day landscape?
What were the 2 religious sects that resulted from the Great Schism?
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
Precipitation
Water falling from clouds: snow, rain, sleet, hail
What is the biggest influence on Climate for any region? (Give the term and the definition of it)
Latitude (the distance from the equator)
Roughly when did the first schism in Christianity occur?
Roughly when did the Protestant Reformation happen?
1054
1500s
acid rain
Air pollution has made the rain more acidic
Which religion was persecuted throughout history in Europe?
All of them (Christianity, Islam, Judaism)
Ice Age
time of lower temperatures when much of the land is covered with snow and ice
Why do mountains tend to have rainfall on one side and not the other?
When the clouds are pushed up by the mountainside, they get cooler. Cooler air cannot hold as much water, so it releases the water as rainfall on that side.
emigrated
to migrate out of a place