World Geography Pages 21-30

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What effect does GPS and navigation have on our brains?

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They will prematurely fail due to under use of our navigation skills

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Our ability to navigate is threatened by...

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Using GPS instead of our own ability to find our way around

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Disuse of brain to navigate causes...

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Memory loss, dementia, alzhiemers

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Our brains in general are affected by...

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Everything we do

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Using a smartphone helps

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Hand-eye coordination

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Watching 2 screens at once affects you by...

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Negative emotions, ability to make decisions, and reason

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What can stress be caused by?

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Technology

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People who are prone to stress have a greater risk of ____ later in life

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Dementia and depression

Front 9

Positive affects of 3 Gorges Dam

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Flood control

Improves irrigation

Hydro-electricity

Ships travel to interior of China

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Negative effects of 3 Gorges Dam

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1-2 million people relocated

1000 towns and villages disappear

Loss of animal habitats

Huge reservoir may affect climate in region

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Physical processes

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Gradual changes through a series of events of the earth

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Internal forces

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Shapes the earth's surface beneath the lithosphere

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Tectonic plates

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Enormous moving pieces of the lithosphere

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How old is earth according to science?

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4.6 billion years old

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Earth's crust is divided into how many parts?

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12

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Movement of plates causes them to...

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Divide, collide and brush up against each other

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Convergent

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Plates colliding to form mountains

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Subuction

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One plate goes on top of the other, forms volcanoes and causes earthquakes

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Divergent

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Plates pulling apart, creates rifts and valleys

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Transform

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Plates rubbing against each other, causes earthquakes

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Ring of fire

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Several tectonic plates cone together

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External forces

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Happen outside of earth's crust to change the land

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Erosion

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Weathered material is moved by the action of wind, ice, water, or gravity

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Water erosion

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Rivers cutting through land creating canyons or valleys

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Wind erosion

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Wind blows sediment drying out land and creating and dunes and desertification

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Ice erosion

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Glaciation; when glaciers melt or move creating rivers and lakes

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Weathering

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Breaking down of materials into smaller pieces

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Mechanical weathering

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Breaks rocks into smaller pieces by forcing them apart

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Chemical weathering

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Eats away at a rock instead of breaking it apart

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Soil building

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The breakdown of rocks and materials that creates arable farmland

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Axis

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Imaginary line running from the north pole, thru the center of the earth, to the south pole

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Where is the axis located?

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23 1/2° away from top of the earth

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How does the axis affect temperature?

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Tilt away from sun=colder

Tilt toward sun=warmer

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How long does one rotation take?

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24 hours

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How long does on revolution take?

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365 days

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Tropic of cancer

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23 1/2° north; northernmost point on earth to receive direct sunlight

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Tropic of capricorn

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23 1/2° south; southernmost point on earth to receive direct sunlight

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Equinoxes

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"Equal night"; exactly 12 hours of both day and night

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Autumn equinox

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September 21 and 22

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Vernal equinox

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March 21 and 22

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Summer solstice

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North pole tilted to sun at 23 1/2° north

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Winter solstice

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South pole tilted to sun at 23 1/2° south

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Poles

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Each pole gets 6 months of continuous sunlight every year

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Low latitude zone

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Between 30° south and 30° north, including both tropics and equator; has hot climate because of direct sunlight all year round

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High latitude zone

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Stretch from 60° north to 90° north and 60° south to 90° south and includes polar areas. During a hemisphere's summer, its pole will get constant but indirect sunlight

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Mid latitude zone

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Between 30° north and

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Cool air is...

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Less dense

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Warm air is...

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More dense

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As altitude increases, air gets

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Thinner (therefore for cold)

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How are winds caused?

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Sunlight heating the earth unevenly

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Climate depends on

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Wind/ocean currents, latitude, physical features

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Prevailing winds

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Global winds traveling in fairly constant/predictable patterns

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What determines the direction of prevailing winds?

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Latitude and earth's movement

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Coriolis effect

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Paths of global winds go right in n hemisphere and left in s hemisphere

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Coriolis makes prevailing winds blow...

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Diagonally, instead of n,s,e,w

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Winds are named after...

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Direction they COME FROM

Purple they serve

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Trade winds

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Named after sailors selling goods

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Westerlies are...

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Prevailing winds in mid latitudes

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Polar easterlies...

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Push cold air toward mid latitudes

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Doldrums

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Not much wind, calm

Located near equator as well as just south of of tropic of capricorn and just north lf tropic of cancer due to trade winds subsiding and warm air rising

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Horse latitudes

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Sailors had to throw livestock overboard in doldrums bc of lack of wind

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Wind and water affect climate by,

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Precipitation and temperature

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Windward

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Facing direction that the wind is blowing

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Leeward

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Facing away from where wind is blowing

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Rain shadow

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Result of process by which dry areas develop on leeward side of mountain ranges

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Weather

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Condition of atmosphere at a given location and time

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Climate

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Weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period of time

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Weather vs. Clinate

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Weather=short term climate=long term

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LANDOT

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Latitude

Altitude

Nearness to water

Direction of wind

Ocean currents

Topography

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Latitude

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High=polar

Mid=temperate

Low=tropical

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Altitude

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Height above sea level

For every 1000 feet you go up, temperature drops 3.5°

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Nearness to water

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Orographic effect

Orographic effect

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Windward side

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Close to water, moist

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Leeward side

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Hot and dry, desert

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Rain shadow effect

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Warm air condenses when reaching the top of the mountain, causing air on the opposite side to be hot and dry

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Continentality

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Region's distance from the moderating influence of the sea

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Direction of wind

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Distribution of sun's heat around the world

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Prevailing winds

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Direction that wind normally blows

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Ocean currents

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Prevailing flow of ocean's waters (warm or cool)

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Topography

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Surface features of the area (mountains, planes, forests)