Physical Geography Ch. 1

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Physical Geography

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Study of the earths Rocks, Landforms, Water, weather and climate, Flora, Fauna and Soil

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Cultural Geography

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Study of Population and Settlements, Economics, Transportation, Languages, religion, politics ect.

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International Sytstem (SI)

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The metric system
grams, meters, celcius, liters

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Lithosphere

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Litho=stone, The solid inorganic portion of the earth

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Atmosphere

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Atmo=air, the gasseous envelope of air around earth

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Hydrosphere

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Greek for water, Water in all its forms.

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Cryosphere

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Cold; frozen water

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Biosphere

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life, all the parts of earth where life can exist.

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Great circle

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a plane that bisects a sphere.

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Latitude

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Location north or south of the equator. "degrees, minutes and seconds.

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Parallel

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A line connecting all points of the same latitude

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Low latitude

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0-30

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Mid latitude

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30-60

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High latitude

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60+

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Equatorial

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few degrees near the equator

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Tropical

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within the tropics 0-23.5

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Subtropical

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25-30

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Polar

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a few degrees from a pole

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Longitude

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East and west degrees minutes and seconds

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Meridian

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Cross parallels at a right angle, are only parallel at the equator

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Prime meridian

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A line passing through greenwhich england that longitude is measured by.

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Rotation

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From west to east, takes 24 hours

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revolution

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takes 365 days, 5 hours and 48 minutes and 46 seconds

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Perihelion "Greek: Around, sun"

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The earths closest position to the sun in a year.

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Aphelion"Away, sun"

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Furthest position from the sun. July 4th.

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Plane of the Ecliptic

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The imaginary orbital path of the sun.

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Inclination of the earth's axis

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23.5 away from perpendicular.

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Polarity of earth's axis or parallelism

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The axes always point the same direction.

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Solar altitude

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The height of the sun above the horizon at different lattitudes

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June solstice

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June 21ish, when the north pole is most directly at the sun

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Tropic of Cancer

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23.5 north of the equator. where the sun would be exactly overhead at noon on the june solstice.

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Circle of illumination

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The dividing line of day and night

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Artic circle

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66.5 N, polar circle that has 24 hours of darkness or light on a solstice

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Antartic Circle

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66.5S, polar circle that has 24 hours of darkness or light on a solstice

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September Equinox

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September 22vertical rays are striking the equator. all areas have 12 hours d/n

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December Solstice

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December 21, when the south pole is most directly at the sun

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Tropic of Capricorn

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23.5 S of the equator. where the sun would be exactly overhead at noon on the dec solstice.

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March Equinox

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March 20, vertical rays are striking the equator. all areas have 12 hours d/n

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Time zones

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15 of long that divides the earth into 24 hourly portions

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Greenwich mean time GMT/ Universal Coordinated time UTC

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The time zone of Greenwich

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International date line

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opposite of the prime meridian, where dates change.

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Daylight Savings time

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Moving the time an hour forward to save on electricity. Started by germany during WWI