Geographers applies what perspective?

(a)  

Earth's environmental sphere that focuses on the gaseous envelope of

air that surrounds Earth; contains the

complex mixture of gases needed to sustain life.

(a)  

Earth's environmental sphere that focuses on a subcomponent of the

hydrosphere; water frozen as snow and ice.

(a)  

Earth's environmental sphere that focuses on the solid, inorganic portion of the Earth; comprising the rocks of Earth’s crust and unconsolidated particles of mineral

matter.

(a)  

Earth's environmental sphere that focuses on all the parts of Earth where living organisms can exist; the vast variety of earthly life forms.

(a)  

Earth's environmental sphere that focuses on water in all its forms; the vast majority of the water found on

Earth.

(a)  

What is the shape of the earth?

(a)  

This is the imaginary line passing through Earth that connects the points on the surface called the North Pole

and the South Pole.

(a)  

This is a plane that intersects Earth’s surface is the imaginary midline of Earth

(a)  

A description of location expressed as an angle north or south of the equator.

(a)  

Line connecting all points of the same

latitude is called (a)   because it is

parallel to all other lines of latitude.

What is the degrees of the equator?

(a)  

What is the degrees of tropic of cancer and it's location?

(a)  

What is the degrees of the tropic of Capricorn and its location?

(a)  

What is the degrees of Arctic Circle and location?

(a)  

What is the degrees and location of Antarctic circle?

(a)  

What is the degrees of north and south pole?

(a)  

An angular description of east–west location, also measured in degrees, minutes, and

seconds.

(a)  

True or false: greenwich meridian chosen as prime meridian

(a)  

The earth rotates from west to east on its axis a complete rotation requiring how many hours?

(a)  

What is the direction of the Earth's rotation?

(a)  

The tilt of the earth is called?

(a)  

(a)   is the orbit around the sun. This takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds

Accurately convey the spherical shape of

Earth

(a)  

A flat representation of Earth, shown reduced in size with only selected features or data

showing.

(a)  

The scale of a map describes the

relationship between distance measured on the map and the actual distance that

represents on Earth’s surface.

(a)  

Give at least 1 example of map

(a)  

A scale map that has a relatively large representative fraction, which means that the denominator is small.

(a)  

A map cale that has a small

representative fraction — in other words, one having a large denominator.

(a)  

a system in which the spherical surface of Earth is transformed for

display on a flat surface.

(a)  

Map properties that depicts accurate shapes, but the sizes are severely exaggerated in high latitude

(a)  

Map projections that is accurate with regard to size, but shapes are badly distorted in high latitudes

(a)  

Map properties neither equivalent nor

conformal, but instead balances reasonably accurate shapes with reasonably accurate areas.

(a)  

Kind of map projection that obtained by

mathematically “wrapping” the globe with a cylinder paper

(a)  

Kind of map projection that is obtained by projecting the markings of a center-lit globe onto a flat piece of paper that is tangent to the globe at one point

(a)  

Kind of map projection that is obtained by projecting the markings of a center-lit globe onto a cone wrapped tangent to, or intersecting, a portion of the globe.

(a)  

Kind of map projections that does wraps around the equator like an ordinary cylindrical projection, but then

further “curves in” toward the poles,

(a)  

Kind of map projection that minimize distortion of the continents is to “interrupt” oceanic regions

(a)  

Variable gasses that is invisible; the visible forms of water in the atmosphere, such as clouds and precipitation, consist of water in its liquid or solid form.

(a)  

Variable gasses that has a significant influence on climate, primarily because of its

ability to absorb thermal infrared radiation

and thereby help warm the lower atmosphere.

(a)  

Variable gasses that is the absorber of ultraviolet solar radiation; it filters out enough of this radiation to protect life forms from potentially deadly effects.

(a)  

is the weight of the overlying air.

(a)  

What are the vertical atmosphere?

(a)  

What is the Depletion of Ozone Layer?

The extreme cooling of Antarctica during the winter, a whirling wind pattern

(a)  

It occurs due to the rotation of

the Earth; causes moving objects (such as air

masses or ocean currents) to be deflected in a

curved path rather than moving in a straight line.

(a)  

Measure of hotness and coldness

(a)  

refers to energy that transfers from one

object or substance to another because of a difference in temperature.

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which energy is transferred in the form of electromagnetic waves

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which radiation is absorbed by molecules or particles in the atmosphere, converting the radiant energy into heat.

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which radiation is redirected or bounced off a

surface without being absorbed

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which particles or molecules in the atmosphere deflect

radiation in different directions

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which radiation passes through a medium

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which heat transfer

through direct contact between molecules

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which heat transfer

through the movement of fluid (in this case, air) caused by density differences.

(a)  

Basic warming and cooling processes in atmosphere which horizontal movement of air, carrying heat from one region to another.

(a)  

True or false. Land surface warms up more rapidly than water surface

(a)  

Atmospheric pressure is measured with ?

(a)  

Direction of wind is measured with?

(a)  

Pressure differences are shown on weather map with isolines called?

(a)  

It measures wind speed in kilometers per hour

(a)  

Direction of movement wherein it causes air to move from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure

(a)  

Direction of movement wherein it slows down wind movement to reduce the movement of Coriolis effect

(a)  

A high-pressure center is known as an

(a)   , and the flow of air associated

with it is described as being anticyclonic.

Low-pressure centers are called (a)   , and the associated wind movement is said to

be cyclonic.

Large convection systems found in the tropics to represent the most complete vertical convective circulation on Earth

(a)  

large, semipermanent high-pressure cells found around 30° latitude in each ocean basin. Often called 'horse latitudes'

(a)  

primary wind system in the tropics, occurring between 25° N and 25° S latitude. mostly easterly (also known as easterlies),

(a)  

place where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge near the equator. often referred to as the "doldrums".

(a)  

primary wind system in the midlatitudes, found between about 30° N and 60° N and 30° S and 60° S. generally, flow from west to east

(a)  

high-speed winds in the upper atmosphere that flow from west to east

(a)  

high-pressure cells located over both polar regions

(a)  

derived from the Arabic mawsim (meaning

“season”). Has come to mean a seasonal reversal of winds — a general sea-to-land movement, called onshore flow, in summer and a general land-to-sea movement, called

offshore flow, in winter.

(a)  

occur during the day when the

land heats up faster than the water

(a)  

occur at night when the land

cools more rapidly than the sea,

(a)  

occur as warmer air from the

slopes rises, causing cooler air from the

valley floor to flow upslope, often leading to

afternoon showers.

(a)  

the mountain slopes cool rapidly,

causing the air to sink downslope

(a)  

continuous movement of moisture between Earth's surface and the atmosphere

(a)  

the process that puts water vapor

into the atmosphere.

(a)  

the combined process

of evaporation from land and transpiration from

plants.

(a)  

water vapor is converted to

liquid water.

(a)  

visible masses of tiny water

droplets or ice crystals suspended in the

atmosphere.

(a)  

a cloud on the ground.

(a)  

Any form of water, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface.

(a)  

large body of air that has

uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure characteristics over a large area.

(a)  

the boundary or transition zone

between two different air masses with distinct temperature, humidity, and pressure characteristics.

(a)  

intense, low-pressure disturbances that develop in the tropics and move poleward, occasionally as far as the midlatitudes.

(a)  

are short-lived, localized storms driven by vertical air motion, humidity, and instability, which generate towering

cumulonimbus clouds, intense precipitation

(a)  

It forms when electrical charges separate in a cumulonimbus cloud, creating a large electric potential that leads to a discharge between the cloud and the ground or within the cloud itself.

(a)  

violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the

Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud

(a)  

Similar-appearing funnels over the ocean, called (a)   , have a lesser pressure gradient, gentler winds, and reduced destructive capability.