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A huge, moving mass of ice.
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What is a Glacier? p.15.
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ice sheets up to two miles thick which are receding due to Greenhouse Effect causing flooding
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A flat, sandy area where a river enters an ocean.
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What is a Delta? p. 15.
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The Mississippi has one in Louisianna
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A way to draw the curved areas of the earth on a flat surface.
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What is a Map Projection?
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Lessens distortion at edges and around equator.
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Related to regions near the equator, a tropical climate is very warm and moist.
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What is Tropical? p. 15.
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Hawaii's climate.
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A resource that can be replaced as it is used.
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What is a Renewable Resource?
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Ex. trees, people, animals, grasses, et. al.
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A resource that cannot be replaced by natural resources or is replaced extremely slowly.
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What is a Nonrenewable Resource? p.15.
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Fossil Fuels, water, precious metals, oxygen, et. al.
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Explains subject of map & tells what information it conveys.
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What is the Map Title?
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tells what map is about
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Gives cardinal or secondary directions on a map/globe.
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What is a Compass Rose?
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May be a North Arrow as simpler form
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Words or phrases explaining features of map.
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What are Labels?
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descriptive words on maps
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Lines of latitude and longitude which form intersecting lines on maps and globes
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What is a Map Grid?
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helps to find absolute locaton by coordinates on maps
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The ratio between a unit of length on a map and unit of distance on earth.
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What is Scale?
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small scale covers a large area while large scale covers a small, finite area.
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Represent real objects/ activities (i.e., capitals, boundaries, economic activities & natural resources, etc.
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What are Symbols?
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Ex. Circled star = Capital
Crossed lines = railroad |
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Represents information by color on legend
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What is Color-coding?
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Ex. blue/water, pie graph percentages by color
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Ways of showing the curved surface of Earth on a flat map with minimal distortion
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What are Projections?
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types are Mercator, Homolosine, & Robinson
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A projection showing the shortest distance betw. two points by a straight line.
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What is a Planar Projection?
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An "azimuthal map"
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A projection of a map onto a cone; used to showlandmasses extending over large area East to West.
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What is a Conical Projection?
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looks like an upside down ice cream cone
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Projects map onto a cylinder;
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What is a Compromise Projection?
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Ex. Mercator, Homolosine & Robinson types of maps
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The shapes of continents distort at poles & compress at equator.
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What is a Mercator Map?
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Divides oceans with accurate shapes & sizes but not distance
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What is an Homolosine Map?
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"Interrupted Map"
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Used in Textbooks; shows entire Earth w/ nearly true sizes & shapes of continents
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What is a Robinson Map?
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Landforms appear flat at poles.
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Shows types of landforms and bodies of water found in a specific area.
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What is a Physical Map?
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Shows features of earth that are formed by Nature.
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Maps showing man-made features on the earth's surface.
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What are Political Maps?
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Ex. capitals, cities, boundaries, provinces territories, countries, roads , railways.
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Focus on specific types of information.
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What is a Thematic Map?
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Maps using colors, symbols, dots, or lines to help you see patterns related to specific data
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What are Qualitative Maps?
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Ex. showing spread of culture by color & symbols
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Maps presenting information about a country based on a set of data other than land area.
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What are Cartograms?
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Ex. showing world's oil reserves across countries by color or symbols
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Maps showing the movement of goods, ideas, animals, or even glaciers using a series of arrows to show location, direction & scope of movement
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What is a Flow-Line Map?
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Width of arrows may show quantity of flow in movement; also location, direction & scope
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30 degrees N. is the point farthest North where the sun shines directly overhead at 12:00 noon.
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What is the Tropic of Cancer?
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half the distance between equator and Arctic Circle on June 21.
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30 degrees S. is the point farthest South where the sun shines directly overhead at 12:00
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What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
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half the distance betw. equator and Antarctic Circle on December 21.
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The day on which the sun's rays shine directly overhead.
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What is the Solstice?
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happens at end of June and end of December.
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This marks the shortest day of the year.
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What is the Summer Solstice?
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June 21/22
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This marks the longest day of the year.
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What is the Winter Solstice?
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December 22/23
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Twice a year when days and nights all over the world are equal in length.
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What is the Equinox?
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Happens in Spring about March 21st & Autumn about Sept. 23.
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This marks beginning of spring and autumn.
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What is the Autumnal Equinox?
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Land on the Leeward side of a mountain which gets little rain from the descending dry air.
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What is the Rain Shadow effect?
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also called Orographic Effect.
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Types of Precipitation
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What are Convectional, Orographic, and Frontal.
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Hot climates use convection to heat warm, moist air in morning producing clouds & rain in afternoon.
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What is Convectional Precipitation?
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Ex. Florida beaches have thunderstorms in afternoons
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In mountainous areas the clouds rise up the windward side, drop rain, and pass over to leeward side without rain
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What is Orographic Precipitation?
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Ex. California Coast
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Mid-Latitude storms feature cold dense air masses that push lighter warm air masses upward creating precipitation
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What is Frontal Precipitaion?
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Ex. Cold front meets warm front and rising warm air causes rainfall
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