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What are the four spheres of physical geography? |
Atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere , biosphere |
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What is the atmosphere formed by? |
Gases rising from within earth's interior and exhalations of life forms over time. It also moves moisture throughout the world |
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What is the hydrosphere? |
The water that exists across the earth |
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What is the lithosphere? |
The rock matter or land on the earth |
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What is the biosphere? |
All living creatures on the earth |
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Who figured out that the earth was round? |
The Greeks |
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What is the earth shape? |
An oblate spheroid |
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What is relative location? |
A position of a place in relation of that of other places and activities |
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What is absolute location? |
Any point on the earth that can be accurately describe by reference to its degrees, minutes, and seconds. Using longitude and latitude |
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Many map still use what? |
A basic geographic grid map |
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What is Latitude? |
East to west around the earth following the line of the equator |
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What is longitude? |
North to south following the line of the prime meridian |
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What is the prime meridian ? |
The baseline for measuring longitude. It runs through London England |
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What is the international date line? |
A line in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that if crossed you will either gain or lose a day |
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An example of political boundaries |
The four corners monument where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet |
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What are geometric boundaries? |
State boundaries determined using longitude and latitude measurements |
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Which direction does the earth rotate? |
Counter clockwise |
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Where is the Tropic of Capricorn? |
23.5° south |
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Where is the Tropic of Cancer? |
23.5° north |
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What causes The seasons? |
The tilt of the earth as it rotates around the sun |
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How is the earth tilted during the December solstice? |
The southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun |
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What is the equinox? |
A time of which the sun rays strike the equator at a 90° angle so the earth gets 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness on the equinox |
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What is the June solstice? |
When the northern hemisphere is tilted to towards the sun while the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun |
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What is the only state never get warmer than 100°? |
Hawaii |
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Why are there 24 times zones? |
South facing Hills always get more sunlight |
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Why can't you look up at the noon sun for more than a second but you can watch the sunset at night or rise morning? What is solar noon? |
Because the sun while it is setting is at a lower angle and hast to travel through 11 times more atmosphere than at noon at a 90° angle |
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Why are there 24 times zones? |
Because the earth is 360° divided by 24 hours a day equals 15° longitude |
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What is solar noon? |
The time of day when the sun is at its highest point in the sky |
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What is daylight savings time? |
Changing the clock by an hour in the summer or winter to gain more daylight usable time for residents |
