Geography Final - Austin Smith

Maps that indicate state or national boundaries, capitals and cities.

The most common way to measure a countries wealth

Refers to the basic energy and equipment needs of all industries.

Plastic cups are an example of what?

What happens when you transfer the image of a globe onto a flat map?

What is the ciriolis effect?

What is the box in the bottom right an example of?

Forests, wastelands, and grasslands are the three basic types of biomes.

_______________ is the removal of small materials broken down by the effects of weathering.

The study of the process by which people and countries make choices about how to use and distribute resources.

Plains

Forests where trees lose their leaves during a particular season, trees have flat, broad leaves and need a lot of water.

Deep cracks in the earths surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions.

What do you get when you combine metals?

Wide range of industries that take full advantage of peoples skills

Mountains are the result of what?

What is cartography?

Arms of oceans partially enclosed by land.

Barren, little to no rainfall.

Fossil and Hydrocarbon fuels form over millions of years due to trapped plants/animals under layers of sedimentary rock.

Wetlands are areas of standing, stagnant water often referred to as bogs, swamps, moors or marshes.

Aluminum is extracted from what?

What do we call the red, center areas

What do you call detailed land features on a map?

What is per capita GDP

What kind of map is shown in the photo?

Little to no precipitation, arid, can be hot or cold.

Infrastructure is an example of Tertiary industries.

Cultivation or farming in a controlled artificial environment.

The covering of air that surrounds our planet is called __________.

Big businesses that use machines and turn raw materials into new products on a large scale.

Forests that grow in cold, harsh subpolar climates where most other trees cannot survive.

Plate tectonics theory

Any method used to show the earth's round surface on a flat map.

Imaginary line that runs north and south through Greenwich, England

A cataclysm is a violent upheaval or change in the earths crust.

Liquid hydrocarbon fuel

The mantle is a layer of hot, plastic material that earthquake waves often move through.

Cash crops are crops smaller farmers grow in order to support their families and livelihood.

Imaginary lines that run north and south around the earth.

Private businesses or individuals build most industries and take most of the risk

Good farmland, most civilizations are located here, moderate rainfall and temperate climates.

Rivers that feed other rivers are called tributaries.

When the temperature drops, water vapor loses energy, condensation occurs, and water falls to earth in a process called?

Communication is the transportation of ideas and information.

Extreme form of rule, government owns everything and dictates peoples way of life.

The earths crust is relatively thick, approximately 75 miles thick.

What are the blue regions

The hydrologic cycle is the process of evaporation, condensation, humidity, and precipitation.

Published a lengthy argument for a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory.

Landforms

The point at which water vapor begins condensation is called ___________.

What kind of map is this an example of?

Also known as the service industry, this is where most of the people are employed.

The earth is divides into two sphere halves, called what?

The two main branches of agriculture are?

The 4 ways a map can be distorted are area, distance, direction and ___________.

The most basic of industries; includes fishing, mining, agriculture, and forestry.

Uniformitarianism is the idea that the earth developed over several thousand years and was shaped by natural processes.

The application of science to industry

Temperate grasslands in temperate regions where rainfall is between 10" and 30" inches a year.

What do we call water vapor that is in the air?

All of the below are useful properties of metal except:

Areas of varying heights, as altitude increases air becomes thinner and holds less thermal energy

The industrial revolution was a period of radical change from 1990-2005 which made our modern industries possible

What are the green areas?

Who was the first great geography and mathematician? He also wrote a book called geography.

The solid part of the earth is called the _________.

Solid crystals that occur naturally and have a definite chemical composition

Line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.

What ocean borders the western coast of the Americas and stretches all the way to the Asian continent?

Cars are an example of what?

The water on the earths surface is called ___________.

Anyone can start a business and profit financially with little interference from the government

Nation has a high GDP but low per capita GDP.

Provide energy, gas, water, sewage-disposal, and trash collection services.

A description of humanity and how people interact with it day to day.

What are Glaciers?

Wind is caused by the heating and cooling of air masses.

Define arid

The most important type of mineral is metals.

Define air mass

When looking at rivers, we can compare them by using four features, which are Length, Navigability, Discharge and ______

Take raw materials and change them into a useful form.

The breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, temperature changes, and the formation of ice and mineral crystals.

Rainfall is extremely heavy, warm climate, lots of grasses.

Useful substances found in the earth are called what

The main landmasses on the earth are called what?

Imaginary lines that run east and west around the earth.

Roman Geographer who promoted the Geocentric (Earth-centered) theory?

Government owns major industries and promises to make production decisions for the welfare of society.

The largest ocean in the world is the Atlantic ocean, which contains roughly %50 of all the world oceans.

The 4 world oceans are the Artic, Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

This man made it easier to locate places on a map by perfecting the grid.

What do you call any large region where distinct populations of plants or animals are found living together?

What do you call landmasses surrounded by water on all sided?

Cold regions near the poles that support only limited vegetation.

What is this an example of?

GDP stands for Goods Daily Produced

Natural parks with open areas and only a few scattered trees.