Mapping
Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region
What are the five themes of geography?
A hurricane is different than a storm because of this.
What is wind speed?
Gradational forces include these five things
What are waves, gravity, wind, glaciation, and rivers?
SONAR
What is sound navigation and ranging?
A system where both energy and matter escape out of the system through the system boundary.
What is Open system?
Describes the location of a place by its latitude and longitude or exact address.
What is absolute location?
This is what causes a tornado.
What are warm air currents rising to confront cold jet streams.
According to the theory, the surface of the Earth is broken into large sections.
What is plate tectonics?
The distance the wind blows across the ocean gathering energy over the distance until it reaches shore.
What is fetch?
This is causing temperatures to rise and the threat of massive flooding.
What is global warming?
An example of this might be, "Nova Scotia is located in both the northern and western hemispheres. Specifically positioned in the Canadian Maritimes, a region of eastern Canada."
What is relative location?
Hurricanes in the Atlantic begin here and are carried by currents.
What is Africa?
The edges of Earth's plates, where they move against each other, are sites of intense geologic activity, such as these three things.
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building?
Notches are formed where waves meet land as this form of change.
What is erosion?
Three types of energy necessary to the biosphere are these.
What are kinetic, thermal, and chemical energies?
These lines on a map show the height of the land above sea level.
What are contour lines?
Hurricanes need these two things to form and continue to grow.
What is warm water and energy?
the creation of new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges and movement of the crust away from the mid-ocean ridges.
What is sea-floor spreading?
Earth is made up of this much ocean.
What is 70%?
A species that are severely endangered due to global warming are these and demonstrate the chnage in the Earth's norhtern conditions.
What are Polar Bears?
Distance measured in degrees east of west from an imaginary line called the Prime Meridian, running from the North pole to the South pole.
What is longitude?
A meandering band of strong westerly winds in the upper atmosphere that moves weather systems from west to east.
What is the jet stream?
The size of the earthquake is called this.
What is magnitude?
Form off the coast as sandbars and barrier islands as water recedes from the coast and sediment is deposited.
What is emergent shoreline?
Three human activities that are having the most impact the biosphere in a dramatic and dangeraous way.
What is clear-cutting, pollution (CO2 emissions), and over fishing?