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| Name the physical characteristics of a place? | Land Forms, climate and vegetation |
| What is the movement about which geographers talk about.? | Movement of people, objects & ideas from one place to another. |
| The customs, politics, and food that make a place unique are called what? | Human characteristics |
| How can a region be defined? | Functional or formal. |
| Define conformal, equal area, equidistant, and azimuthal maps? | Different map projections that show ways to look at the world. |
| What do remote sensing devices do? | A method by which airplanes and satellites can produce photographs or computer-generated images of sections of the earths surface. |
| Why do mapmakers design different projections? | Each of the various map projections producessome distortion of the earths surface, and is a way of showing the round earth on a flat surface such as paper. |
| Purpose of a map legend? | A map legend is for the user to know what the symbols and abbreviations mean on the map. |
| What tools do geographers use? | Maps & globes. |
| What is a human-enviromental interaction? | The way people use their enviroment and have changed it, and the consequences of those changes, and how they respond to those consequences. |
| Name the 5 themes of geography. | Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, Place, |
| How is longitude measured? | Degrees east & west of Prime Meridian |
| Major landforms where first shaped by what? | The plates underneath the earth moving and forming masses by pushing up land and making holes and cracks in the earth. |
| What is the theory of Plate Tectonics? | The theory that the earth's outer shell is composed of a number of large, unanchored plates, or slabs of rock, whose constant movement exlpains earthquakes and volcanic activity. |
| What causes earth quakes? | Movement of tectonic plates. |
| What is mechanical weathering? | The actual breaking up or physical weakening of rock by forces such as ice and roots. |
| What is the greatest agent of erosion? | Running water. |
| How would you classify climate regions? | By precipitation & temperature. |
| Why do wind and ocean currents NOT move in a straight line? | Coriollis Effect |
| World climate zones are divided into how many regions? | Six regions. |
| What causes climate? | Latitude, proximity to large bodies of water, elevation |
| What are biomes? | A region in which the enviroment, plants, and animal life are suited to one another. |
| Where are deciduos forests? | Middle latitude. |
| The central regions of a continent are covered by what? | Grasslands |
| Why has there been declining death rates in developed contries? | Improved medical care. |
