God's Gift to Man
What is geography?
Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
Who was the scientist who created the climate classification chart?
Wladimir Koopen.
Name three renewable resources.
Water, soil, air, tress, energy (waterpower, geothermal, wind, solar)
Name the earth's hemispheres.
North, South, East, and West.
Name some factors that help to determine the climate of a region.
Latitude, wind patters, ocean currents, precipitation, elevation.
Type of climate that is always hot.
Tropical climate.
Name at least five landforms.
Mountains, hills, plateaus, mesas, buttes, valleys, plains, deltas, estuaries, peninsulas, islands, isthmuses.
Type of climate that is always cold.
Polar climate
Name the four oceans.
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic.
Name the seven continents.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia.
Explain the difference between weather and climate.
Weather involves the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere in a localized area during a short period of time. Climate involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region.
Name at least four types of climate.
Tropical, dry, continental, polar, highland, mild
Explain the steps of the hydrologic cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Type of climate that has seasonal extremes.
Continental climate
Explain the difference between good stewardship and environmental extremism.
Good good stewardship is according to God's will and environmental extremism is in man's sinful viewpoint.