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Who/what group of people had the most influence on geography?
The Greeks
Makes maps
Cartographer
General Purpose aka "reference"
Gives you direction / shows where things are
Why was daylight savings time originally created?
To save fuel money during the war
Lapse Rate
every 1000ft of elevation, the temperature drops 3.5 degrees F
How were climate codes determined?
They were determined based off location and their vegetation patterns.
Reads and interporates maps
Geographer
Displaying a series of themes
Example: religion
Thematic Map
A political/human concept
Time
High latitude in the winter results in....
Endless Daylight
What is the circumference of the earth?
25,000 miles
U.S has more tarsands than Canada.
True or False?
False
Most popular form of plate tectonics
Double Jeopardy!!!!
Which is the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels?
Coal
Name 3 places with the most ideal climate... ("C")
Southern California, Southern Europe and Australia.
Uses a grid system (example: address)
Absolute Location
From London. The father of longitude/clock/time.
John Harrison
Russia is distorted in this map...
Mercator
Why is Indonesia Saudi Arabia's biggest consumer?
because of culture
Double Jeopardy!!!
Explain why Europe will eventually get cooler because of global warming.
The currents will become slower.
Since the Earth is warming, the ice is melting, which is causing more resistance, which creates slower currents.
Relative distance's 3 forms:
Time, money & psychological.
About how much natural gas does Russia have?
about 1/4
Cartogram Map
Subset of thematic. Coloration or distorting shape to express data.
Has only 1 time zone
China
explain the Carbon Credits (trading) loophole.
Although companies are given a certain amount of CO2 to produce each year, smaller companies strategize by selling their credits to larger companies.