What term refers to earths movement around its axis and what term refers to earths movement around the sun?
Earths Rotation and Tilt
100
The complete network of parallels and meridian on a glober map which provides a system for locating places on earths surface is called ...
Geographic Grid
100
Which is the lowest most layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs?
troposphere
100
what is the process of ice, solid state, change into water vapor, gaseous state?
Sublimation
100
What is the solid realm known as?
Lithosphere
200
When is Earth farthest and when is Earth closest to the Sun during its orbit?
Aphelion (July 4) Perihelion (Jan 3)
200
What term refers to the level of detail at which a phenomenon is studied? It relates to distance on a map to actual distance on Earth.
Map Scale
200
Gases are well mixed in which region of the atmosphere?
Hemisphere
200
What problems are associated with acid deposition?
Rain and dust-ecosystem (forest, soil, dead fish) building damage.
200
Explain Earths revolution including shape and number of days it takes.
365 1/4 and it has elliptical elongated orbits
300
What term refers to the phenomenon related to Earth that cause air and ocean currents to deflect from their original direction of motion?
Coriolis Effect
300
What term refers to the complete rotation of Earth around its axis?
Solar Day
300
Which latitudes generally have an annual net radiation deficit and more variable temperature ranges?
High Latitudes
300
What type of fog forms when warm moist air moves over a colder surface?
Advection
300
What is the single major problem all map projections have in common?
Distortion
400
Which mount projection is a rectangular grid of meridians and parallels which provides a system for locating places on Earths surface?
Mercator Projection
400
Which parallel of latitude is located midway between the earths poles and is designated a latitude of 0 degrees?
Equator
400
Since large bodies of water heat and cool more ___ compare to land surfaces, monthly temperature maximums and minimums tend to be delayed along the coast.
slowly
400
If no water vapor is added or removed from the air, the relative humidity does what as temperature increases?
Decrease
400
What is transpiration?
water moves to atmosphere through plant leaf pore evaporation.
500
The 180 meridian of longitude serve as what time related feature?
International Date line
500
Which meridian of longitude is designated at 0 degrees from which east and west distance is measured?
Prime meridian
500
After orographic precipitation has occurred over a highland, the process descending air goes through by warming and drying on the leeward highland is called what?
Rain shadow effect
500
What kind of tall dense clouds are associated with intense convection/convective thunderstorms with moist, warm, unstable air with very strong updrafts of air?
Cumulonimbus
500
what is relative humidy?
the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount it can hold