Maps
Weather & Climate
Topography
Important Concepts
Coordinates
(Use p.268-9 of your book)
100

The two major meridians.

What are the Prime Meridian and International Dateline?

100

The key feature of the Temperate Climate zone.

What are the four seasons?

100

The number of sides of a peninsula which are covered by water.

What is three?

100

The type of government which is ruled by one person.

What is a autocracy?

100

The country located at 34S 56W.

What is Uruguay?

200

The equator divides the earth into these.

What are the Northern & Southern hemispheres?

200

The process in which water goes from the ocean to land and back again.

What is the hydrologic cycle?

200

A landform that is like a butte, but larger than a mesa.

What is a plateau?

200

This wind pattern brought ships from Africa to the Americas.

What are Trade Winds or Tropical Easterlies?

200

The capital located at 25N 121E.

What is Taipei?

300

The five major parallels.

What are the Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, and Antarctic Circle?

300

LOCAL changes in the atmosphere over a SHORT period of time.

What is Weather?

300

These feed into rivers to make them larger.

What are tributaries?

300

Religion is the most influential part of culture because it deals with these.

What are Life's Biggest Questions?

300

The coordinates of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (within 5 degrees).

What are 24.7136° N, 46.6753° E?

400

The smallest continent.

What is Australia?

400

Highlands are found in these climate zones.

What are ALL climate zones OR the frigid, temperate, and torrid/tropical zones.

400

A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.

What is an Oasis?

400

The economic system where the government tries to distribute wealth and give access resources - usually through higher taxes.

What is socialism?

400

The coordinates of Kailua-Kona (within 5 degrees).

What are 19.6419° N, 155.9962° W?

500

The ocean nearest to Antarctica.

What is the Southern Ocean?

500

The climate classification that can be found in BOTH the Temperate and Torrid Zones.

What are Dry climates OR Highlands?

500

The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area

What is Topography?

500

A Constitutional Republic is an example of this gov't type. 

What is a Democracy?

500

The coordinates of Cape Town, South Africa. (Within 5 degrees)

What are 33.9249° S, 18.4241° E?