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What is Earth's orbital revolution around the sun?
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It travels 107,280 km/hr (66660 m/h), and complete's one full revolution in 365.2422 days.
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Turning on it's axis; takes slightly less than 24 hours.
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Rotation
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Tilts 23.5 degrees from a perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic
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Axial tilt
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The point of Earth's greatest distance from the Sun in its elliptical orbit;
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Aphelion: does this over 100,000 year cycle, July 4
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That point of Earth's closest approach to the Sun in its elliptical orbit
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Perihelion; 100,000 year cycle, Jan 3.
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What are the Jovian planets?
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Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter
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What are the terrestial planets?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
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A specific event in earth's magnetic field history
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polarity
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Confirms the relationship of tempreature and relative humidity by time of day confirms the relationship of tempreature and relative humitdity
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seasonal variation
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The time when the sun's declination is at the Tropic of cancer
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Summer solstice June 20-21 each year at 23.5 degrees N lat.,
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The time when the sin's declination crosses the equitorial parallel and all places on Earth experience days and nights of equal legnth
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autumnal equinox around sept 22-23,0 degrees lat
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The time when the sun's declination is at the Tropic of Capricorn
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Winter solstice, dec 21-22 23.5 degrees lat
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The time when the sun's declination crosses the equitorial parallel and all places on Earth experience days and nights of equal length
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vernal equinox
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What maps were first based on
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geographic grid
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An angular distance north or south of the equator
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lattitude
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An angular distance east or west of a point on Earth's surface
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longitude
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What degree is the arctic circle at?
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66.5 degrees N lat
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Marks the place where each day officially begins.
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The international date line
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the 180 degree line on the other side of the earth
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the international date line
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What degree is the tropic of cancer located at?
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23.5 degrees N lat
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What degree is the tropic of Capricorn at?
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23.5 Degrees S lat
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What degree is the antarctic circle at?
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66.5 degrees s lat
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What are the degrees of the south pole?
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90 degrees s lat
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Is located in Greenwich, England
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Prime meridian, 180 degrees long
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name the 3 different map projections
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cylindrical, conic, planar
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Which type of map is used for US navigation
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conic
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A computer based data-processing tool for gathering, manipulating, and analyzing geographic info.
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GIS- Geographic information system
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Who is in charge of building and maintaining a bold new national map?
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USGS
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A map that portrays physical relief through the use of elevation contour lines that connect all points at the same elevation above or below a vertical datum, such as mean sea level.
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Topographic map
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The ratio of the distance on a map to that in the real world; expressed as a representative fraction, graphic scale, or written scale?
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map scale
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The point at which Earth rotates
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True North
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The point at which your compass points to
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magnetic north
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map north
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Grid north
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Title, date, legend, catographer, scale, map projection, orientation, grid
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map essentials
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Information acquired from a distance, without physical contact with the subject; for example, photography, orbital imagery or radar
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remote sensing
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instrument that reads radio signals from satellites
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GPS
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The world's first universal time system
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GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
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The moment in the day that divides daylight hours in half
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Solar noon
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Coordinated Universal Time
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Zulu time
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Satellite laser ranging
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SLR
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Automatic Identifacation System
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AIS
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Name the 8 controls of global weather and climate
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LACE MOPS: Lattitude, air masses, continentality, Elevation, Mountain barriers, ocean currents, pressure systems, and storm tracks.
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Effect the distribution of precipitation and temperature
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Air masses
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Have avalible mositure, instability, and humbidity.
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contanentality
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As it increases, temp decreases.
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elevation
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Warm drier condititons on the lowered side of the mountain
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rainshadow
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areas of high pressure caused by the downward force of gravity.
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air pressure
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Name the gases that make up the atmosphere: now cat
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nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, argon, trace gases
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What does CFCs stand for?
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cholroflurocarbons
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How may CFCs in 1987
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1.3 million
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Solar radistion that is incomming to Earth's systems
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insolation
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How much sun reaches earth and how much is retained?
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47%-earth, 19% retained
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Horizontal transfer of energy over the earth
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advection
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Transfer of heat from one place to another through the physical movement of air
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convection
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The slow molecule to molecule transfer of heat through a medium
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conduction
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Heat stored in one of the three states: ice, water, or vapor
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latent heat
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Name the 8 factors in local temp change: Wade ICA
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w-ind patterns
a-lbedo d-differential heating e-nviornmental lapse rate i-nversions c-loud cover a-dia lactic lapse rate |
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Name the percentage of atmospheric gases:
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Nz-78%
Oz-21% Ar-.9% |
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An isoline connecting all points of equal tempreature
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isotherm
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The rate of increase in temperature per unit depth in the Earth.
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thermal gradient
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