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Unit Review: Geography

  1. The geographic question “where is it located?” could be answered by geographers using?

Location-Longitude and Latitude

  1. Why is Geography considered a social science?

Deal with people and how they live

  1. What is the study of weather and its causes called?

Meteorology

  1. What are the five themes of Geography? Describe each one

Location

Region

Movement

Place-

Human Environment Interaction

  1. What are the two branches of Geography and what do each study?

Human

Physical

  1. What theory suggests the continents were all once one super continent?

Continental Drift Theory

  1. How can landforms affect people’s lives?

Job

Language

  1. What climate can occur at many different latitudes?

Highland

  1. What is the spread of desert-like conditions called?

Desertification

  1. Average weather conditions over a long period of time is called?

Climate

  1. What is a nonrenewable resource and give an example

A resource that can NOT replace itself-Natural Gas, Coal, Oil

  1. What is a renewable resource and give an example

A resource that CAN replace itself-Water, Trees

  1. What is an ecosystem?

A group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival-A stream, a city park or a forest

  1. What are the major climate zones?

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Dry

Polar

Tropical

Temperate

Highland

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  1. What is erosion?

The movement of sediments from one location to another

  1. What are the six essential elements.

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The world in spatial Term

Places and Regions

Physical System

Human Systems

Environment and Society

Uses of Geography

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  1. Which essential element uses maps and other types of geographic representation?

The world in spatial terms

  1. How do physical environments affect the way people live?

Clothing, Shelter, or How to prepare for severe weather

  1. What do human geographers study?

The study of the world’s human geographic features-People, Communities and Landscapes

  1. What do globes show?

The world as it really is.

  1. What can the collision of two continents result in?

Mountains

  1. What climate zone receives less than 10 inches of rain a year?

Desert

  1. What climate zone has warm, muggy, and rainy climate year-round?

Humid Tropical Climate

  1. What is deforestation?

The cutting down of trees

  1. If you were in the tropics how do you know what season it is?

The amount of rainfall