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Basic Geography
Ice Ice Baby
DIRT
You Live Where?
I Double Dare You
100
the spatial analysis of all the physical elements and process systems that make up the environment: energy, air, weather, climate, landforms, soils, animals, plants, microorganisms, and Earth
What is physical geography?
100
Greenland and Antarctica
What are the two locations (countries) that the bulk of the world's ice is located?
100
Mineral fragments and organic matter
What is soil comprised of?
100
A large, stable, terrestrial ecosystem characterized by its dominant plant type and vegetation structure.
What is a biome?
100
Alaska and Hawaii
Which two US states do not touch any other US states?
200
Open system
What system is when energy and matter are an input?
200
Accumulation > melting (move forward) Melting > accumulation (retreat)
What is a glacier's mass budget? (gains and losses)
200
Humus
What is a complex mixture of decomposed and synthesized organic materials?
200
Forest, savanna, grassland, desert, tundra
What are the 6 major biome groups?
200
Vatican City
What is the smallest country in the world?
300
Nitrogen 78% Oxygen 21% Argon 1%
What are the three main elements that the atmosphere is composed of? What are the percentages?
300
O degrees C at least 2 years
At what degree is soil or rock considered permafrost? And how long does that have to soil or rock have to stay at that degree?
300
Desertification
What is one major human impact that is the result of overgrazing, and soil erosion?
300
Temperate forest
What biome are we located in?
300
The Marianas Trench
What is the lowest place on Earth?
400
Lat, long
The equator is a line of _____ while the prime meridian is a line of _____.
400
Moraine: the deposition of glacial sediment (landform) lateral- along each side medial- middle terminal- end
What is a moraine? What are the three types?
400
The Dust Bowl
What was it called when wind transported soils that produced a catastrophe in the American Great Plains in the 1930s?
400
Food chain: energy flows through a system Food web: a complex network of interconnected food chains
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
400
The Amazon Rainforest
What produces 20% of the world's oxygen supply?
500
GIS
What is a computer based, data processing tool for gathering, manipulating, and analyzing geographic information?
500
Esker, drumlin field, recessional moraine, games, kettle lake, till, outwash plain
What are three continental glacier depositional features?
500
The basic sampling unit used in soil surveys
What is a pedon?
500
6CO2(carbon dioxide)+6H2O(water)+light(solar energy)=C6H12O6(glucose)+6CO2(oxygen)
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
500
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How many active volcanoes are there in Japan?