Geography Final

Question 1

What verse it the creation mandate found?

Accepted Answer

Genesis 1:28

Question 2

What are the two root meanings of geography?

Accepted Answer

Earth and Written description

Question 3

Where does the prime meridian pass through?

Accepted Answer

Greenwich, England

Question 4

Together, these lines form a what and cut the earth into two equal hemispheres. What do these lines form?

Accepted Answer

equator

Question 5

What is longtitude?

Accepted Answer

It is the distance east or west of the prime meridian measured in degrees

Question 6

What is the equator?

Accepted Answer

It is the imaginary line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Question 7

What is latitude?

Accepted Answer

The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees

Question 8

When someone asks you for directions, you consult a what to communicate the directions to the person.

Accepted Answer

Mental map

Question 9

Most world maps use a variation of which projection?

Accepted Answer

Cylindrical

Question 10

Why is it called an interrupted projection?

Accepted Answer

The image is interrupted with gaps and cuts

Question 11

What does GIS stand for?

Accepted Answer

Geographic information system

Question 12

Additional information is gathers through photographs, laser sensors, and height-measurinng radar by what?

Accepted Answer

Remote sensing

Question 13

Where is the legend typically located?

Accepted Answer

In the corner of the map

Question 14

Which two things are often located near the legend?

Accepted Answer

Compose rose and scale

Question 15

Physical maps that show specific changes in elevation are called what?

Accepted Answer

Relief maps

Question 16

What do cartographers use to separate colors on a relief map to indicate all points on a map that have the same altitude?

Accepted Answer

Contour lines

Question 17

What is culture?

Accepted Answer

System of customs and traditions and habits that a group of people use to make something of their world

Question 18

The modern concept of what teaches that all cultures are equally valid and no culture is better than another. What is the modern concept?

Accepted Answer

Multiculturism

Question 19

Scientists have developed models that divide the planet 🌍 into four parts. The covering of air that surrounds our planet is the what?

Accepted Answer

Atmosphere

Question 20

What is the lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

The earth's crust and the section of the upper mantle that moves with the tectonic plates

Question 21

What consists of all the different areas on the earth 🌏  where life can exist and the living organisms that live there?

Accepted Answer

Biosphere

Question 22

What is the thin outer skin of the earth

Accepted Answer

Crust

Question 23

Above that are the oceans 🌊 and slabs of granitic rock that are many miles thick. Where these slabs rise above the level of the ocean, they form what?

Accepted Answer

Continents

Question 24

What provide tantalizing hints about the secrets that lie below the earth's crust?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

Question 25

What is the mantle?

Accepted Answer

Waves that enter a layer of hot, plastic material

Question 26

What are faults?

Accepted Answer

Deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions

Question 27

What is weathering?

Accepted Answer

The process by which factors or conditions in the environment break rocks into smaller pieces

Question 28

What is erosion?

Accepted Answer

The process of wearing away rock and transporting sediments

Question 29

What is a cataclysm?

Accepted Answer

A violent upheaval or change in the earth's crust

Question 30

In contrast to mountains, ⛰️ what are wide areas of flat land?

Accepted Answer

Plains

Question 31

The most obvious motion of the earth is called what?

Accepted Answer

Rotation

Question 32

Twice each year the sun reaches its greatest angular distance from the equator, an event known as the what?

Accepted Answer

Solstice

Question 33

What receives only a small amount of sunlight in winter 🥶?

Accepted Answer

Polar regions

Question 34

When the concentrated 💦 droplets become too heavy to be supported by updrafts of wind, they fall to the earth in a process called what?

Accepted Answer

Precipitation

Question 35

The land beyond the mountains, an area called the what, is usually dry because little water vapor survives passage over the mountains 🏔️. What is the area called?

Accepted Answer

Rain shadow

Question 36

The climates in these regions are warm, wet, and found near the equator. What is this gray box?

Accepted Answer

Tropical rainy

Question 37

Subpolar regions are not as severe in the summer, permitting hardy evergreen 🌲 trees to grow. Which gray box is this?

Accepted Answer

Cold

Question 38

What are the Pacific Mountain Ranges?

Accepted Answer

Along the Pacific coast of the United States is a series of mountain ranges interspersed with low valleys. The mountains are part of a system called the Pacific Mountain Ranges.

Question 39

The remaining active volcanoes 🌋 are at the southeast end of the chain on the largest island. Which gray box is this?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 40

These mountains form the Eastern Continental Divide. Waters flowing from the eastern side of the mountains empty into the Atlantic Ocean. 🌊 Which gray box is this?

Accepted Answer

dont know yet

Question 41

This gray box has an altitude that rises gradually from about one thousand feet above sea level in the east to about five thousand feet against the mountains in the west.

Accepted Answer

The great plains

Question 42

The largest region of Canada 🇨🇦 is a solid mass of hard rock that makes up nearly half of Canada's land surface. Which gray box is this?

Accepted Answer

The Canadian shield

Question 43

The region also includes a couple of islands in the northern part of the bay which are part of the Nunavut. Which gray box?

Accepted Answer

The Hudson Bay Lowlands

Question 44

This region includes the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland Island, and eastern Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula. Which gray box?

Accepted Answer

The Appalachian Mountains

Question 45

This region consists of almost entirely of Nunavut but also includes a small piece of the Northwest Territory. The Arctic 🐻‍❄️ is one of the earth's great archipelagos or island groups. Which gray box?

Accepted Answer

The Arctic and Intuition Mountains

Question 46

Two Sierra Madres join to form one range near the twentieth parallel and continue into neighboring Guatemala 🇬🇹. These mountains were formed by upward pressures along the edges of tectonic plates. Which gray box?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 47

These are a chain of smaller islands that form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea. The chain curves southward from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 to the South American coast. Which gray box?

Accepted Answer

Lesser Antilles

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