Essentials of Geography
This is a word that describes the relative size or extent of something and can be sorted in two ways.
This measurement describes the eastward and westward extent of a location.
What is longitude?
This is the variety of radiation that is expelled by our own Sun, sent to our atmosphere in waves, and relatively high energy until it hits the ozonosphere.
What is ultra-violet radiation?
This gas specially exists in our atmosphere to reduce the strength of incoming UV radiation.
What is ozone?
This is the passage of shortwave and longwave radiation through our atmosphere.
What is transmission?
These occur all over the globe, involving features like inputs and outputs, and can be either closed or open.
What is a system?
These are the two Tropics of the world, including the degrees measurements they lie on.
What is the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 N) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 S)?
This is the amount of solar radiation that hits the Earth after passing through the atmosphere. The closer you get to the Equator, the more of it there is.
What is insolation?
These three categories allow us to sort the atmosphere in different ways.
What is composition, temperature, and function?
It's this phenomenon that causes light to disperse into colors when it makes contact with a particle in the atmosphere, giving us the beautiful blue sky.
What is scattering?
These two things go hand-in-hand with one another, being the arrangement and actions that cause all of the functions on Earth.
What are patterns and processes?
This is a variety of map with more detail, but covering less space. Usually a low denominator fraction.
This is the line of latitude that the Sun moves along through the day and determines what season a particular place is in.
What is a declination?
This atmospheric layer is one of the two present in the function categorization. It protects us from many short-length radiation varieties, but not UV.
What is the ionosphere?
This measurement describes the reflectivity of a surface. surface high in this tend to be lower temperatures, and vise versa for surfaces low in it.
What is Albedo?
This is the shape of the Earth.
What is an oblique spheroid?
This is the center point for lines of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This refers to the Sun being closer to either hemisphere of the Earth.
This categorization describes gases that have changed a lot in amounts in Earth's recent history due to natural cycles and human activities.
This describes the method by which heat is transferred in a fluid via circulation.
What is convection?
These are the five spatial themes of geography.
What is location, region, human-earth relationships, movement, place?
This map is the only map that can truly preserve all the relative sizes, shapes, and features of the planet.
What is a globe?
These five factors help explain the variation in daylength and sunlight amount on the Earth.
What is revolution, rotation, tilt, axial parallelism, and sphericity?
This phenomenon typically occurs in cities nestled between large features, in which cold air blows into the canyon and hot air rises out of it.
What is a temperature inversion?
This describes the bending of light after it's separation, forming a multitude of colors in the sky we know as a rainbow.
What is refraction?