Spatial Concepts Midterm

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what elements should a good map have?

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title, legend, direction, scale, date

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large scale map

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local view

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medium scale

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regional or country view

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small scale

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global scale or world view

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five themes of geography

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location, place,human-enviroment interaction, movement, regions

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location

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everything has a location, it can be specific or relative

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place

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what makes a place different from other places
ex: house v. home

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movement

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patterns of wind, river, transfer of people and food

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regions

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areas that share common characteristics (types: physical, cultural, etc)

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human-enviroment interaction

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how we treat the enviorment

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plate tectonic theory

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describes the moevement of the earth surface and subsurface, why surface has its features

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types of plate boundaries

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divergent, convergent, transform

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divergent

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magma is forced up causing plates to separate

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convergent

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plates collide and the denser plate is forced back down

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transform

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plates slide past one another making faults and fracture zones

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tilt of the earth

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the earth orbits in one plane, is tilted 23 1/2 degrees off perpendicular to plane

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paralellism of the tilt

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the axis will be paralell to the day before, reason we have seasons

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circle of illumination

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what side of the earth is light up

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latitude

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always listed first, aka paralells, each degree is 60 min, each min is broken into 60 sec

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longitude

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aka lines of meridians, prime meridian (0) and the opposite is the international date line

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tilt of the earth

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the earth orbits in one plane, is tilted 23 1/2 degrees off perpendicular to plane

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paralellism of the tilt

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the axis will be paralell to the day before, reason we have seasons

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circle of illumination

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what side of the earth is light up

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latitude

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always listed first, aka paralells, each degree is 60 min, each min is broken into 60 sec, max 90

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longitude

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aka lines of meridians, prime meridian (0) and the opposite is the international date line, max 180

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tilt of the earth

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the earth orbits in one plane, is tilted 23 1/2 degrees off perpendicular to plane

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paralellism of the tilt

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the axis will be paralell to the day before, reason we have seasons

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circle of illumination

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what side of the earth is light up

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latitude

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always listed first, aka paralells, each degree is 60 min, each min is broken into 60 sec, max 90

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longitude

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aka lines of meridians, prime meridian (0) and the opposite is the international date line, max 180

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types of scales

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RF or representative fraction, written/verbal, graphic/bar/linear

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elements of weather/climate

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temperature, humidity/moisture/precipitation, movement (wind)

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controls of weather

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latitude, elevation, continentality

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what has more atmospheric pressure? (low or high elevation)

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low elevation tends to have higher elevation because it has more air above it

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wind

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horizontal movement of air, moves from high to low pressure

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how do we name winds?

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by where they come from

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valley breeze

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air moves from high pressure to low, from ground to up the mt, in morning

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mt. breeze

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from the top of the mountain to the bottom, in the evening

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land breeze

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pressure is high out at sea and blows onto low pressure land because the land is warm

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land breeze

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the land cools and has high pressure so blows out to see where it is warmer and ha low pressure

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relative humidity

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measure of the actual amount of moisture/ potential for an air mass

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dew point temperature

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depends on actual moisture in the air mass, the more moisture in the air the higher the dew pt temp is, must drop below dew pt temp to rain

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three causes of rain

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orographic lift, convection, frontal

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orographic lift

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forcing an air mass to rise up over mts (it cools)

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convection

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land gets heated enough that it heats the air enough so the air rises

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frontal

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warm front collides with a cold front, the warm front is pushed up at the front

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cyclonic

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area of low pressure so air is attracted there then has to rise

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global warming

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visible light waves come in and are absorbed, it is remitted as heat wave (longer wave) and cant escape

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types of green house gases

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carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor

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what can science do and not do?

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can't prove anything but can disprove

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evidence of global warming

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glacers are melting, polar ice caps are shrinking, mild/shorter winters, more extreme storms,

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weather v. climate

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weather is day to day variations in temp. and rain
climate is the statistical summary

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where are the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn?

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tropic oc cancer is north of the equator, tropic of capricorn is south of the equator

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cyclones

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ex: hurricanes, typhoons (west. pac.)

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continentality

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water heats and cools slower than the land

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types of geography

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human: cultural, econcomic, political
physical: continents, climates, vegetation

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cartography

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drawing of maps

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methods of map making

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conformal maps: distort size but save shape
equal area maps: distort shape but save size