Intro to Geo
This area of study shows that every place on earth has a specific location.
What is the study of location?
The world's population.
What is 8.2 billion people a measure of?
The measure of the North and South Pole.
What is 90deg N and 90 deg S?
The Earth is on a tilt of ____ and rotates in _____ direction around an imaginary ____.
What is 23.5 deg in Counterclockwise direction and on an axis?
The length of time it takes to go around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days OR 1 year
This area of study shows parts of the world grouped together based on natural landscapes and man made creations
What is the study of Regions?
Earth is made up of these 2 percentages.
What is 73% water and 27% land?
The measure of the most important line of latitude (Name and Degree)?
What is the equator - 0 degrees.
The length of time for a full rotation around the Earth's axis.
Bonus for exact amount and how we account for 4 seconds.
What is 23 hours, 59 minutes and 56 seconds?
Leap year every 4 years to acct for 4 seconds leftover.
Round shape and tilt of Earth causes ______
What is an uneven amount of sunlight to HEAT Earth's surface.
This area of study that shows physical characteristics and human characteristics. Examples of each.
What is the study of Place?
Examples of Physical Characteristics - mountains
Examples of human characteristics - population, rural and urban settings
The world is divided into 4 of these. Name them.
What are hemispheres?
Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western
The measure of the most important line of longitude (Name, Degree)?
What city does it pass through?
What is the Prime Meridian? 0 degrees.
Greenwich, England
Day and Night - Explain.
When the half of the earth is facing sun has day, the half facing away has night.
Sun rises in east, Sets in West.
What is this called on the calendar?
What is Equator? What is an equinox?
This area of study shows the modes of transportation used to move people, goods, and information.
What is the study of Movement?
Horizontal lines going around the earth (Full name).
How are they measured?
What are Parallels of Latitude?
in degrees either north or south of the Equator.
The measure of the Arctic and Antarctic Circle?
What is 66.5 deg N and 66.5 deg S?
Explain day/night in poles/Arctic Circles.
Bonus - What is this area called because of this?
The earths tilt makes the Arctic Circle get 6 months of sunlight over the summer and in winter = darkness.
Land of the Midnight Sun
Time of year when the sun's rays are shining directly on the Tropics. Name the season on the calendar.
Where is the sun shining in each of those seasons in North America?
What is a solstice?
Summer - Sun on Tropic of Cancer
Winter - Sun on Tropic of Capricorn
This area of study shows the effect of man and nature on the world around us. Give examples of each.
What is the study of People and the Environment.
Man made effect on envir - deforestation
Natural effect on nature - Hurricane/Forest Fires.
The vertical lines of the globe (Full Name).
How are they measured?
What's different about these lines vs horizontal lines?
What are Meridians of Longitude?
in degrees labelled E or W of Prime Meridian.
They converge at the poles. (NOT parallel)
The measure of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
What is 23.5 deg N - Tropic of Cancer?
What is 23.5 deg S - Tropic of Capricorn?
What are 4 points that tell us why we have seasons?
1. Earth is tilted on 23.5 deg axis
2. Earth's tilt and round shape causes uneven heating/distribution
3. Earth orbits sun causing sun to hit different areas resulting in different seasons
4. Concentration of sun's rays on equator or Tropics = which gives 4 seasons to MID Lattitudes (between 23.5 & 66.5 degrees N and S)