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Geography Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Geography? | Geography is the Study of Earth |
| What is GIS? | Geographic Information Systems, computers used to analyze data about the Earth in order to solve problems by layering information |
| What is GPS? | A system of Satellites that connect information from all around the world |
| What are the five themes of Geography? | MR. HELP - Movement, Region, Human Environmental Interaction, Location, Place |
| What is the Difference between Location and place and how do we define each? | |
| Location can be defined in two ways, What are they? | |
| What is a Region? | |
| What are the 3 types of regions? | |
| What is Movement? | |
| What are some reasons that people might move from one region to another? | |
| What is Human Environmental Interaction? | |
| How do people use their environments? | |
| How do people change their environments? | |
| What is a map? | |
| What are the basic components of a map? | Key/Legend, Scale, Compase Rose |
| What are the Three types of maps? | Physical, Political, and Special Purpose |
| What is Choropleth method mapping and when and what types of maps most often make us of this method? | |
| What are some of the limitations and problems with maps? | Distortion |
| Map distortion occurs in four ways what are they and how might we solve for each of them | |
| What is the difference between a Mercator Map projection, a Robinson Map Projection and an Equal Distance Map projection? | |
| What directions do Latitude Lines measure and run? | |
| What directions do Longitude Lines measure and run? | |
| What are hemispheres? | |
| What Latitude line is the Equator? | |
| What Latitude line is the Tropic of Capricorn? | |
| What Latitude line is the Tropic of Cancer? | |
| What Country does the Prime Meridian Run through? | England |
| What Longitude line is the International Date Line? | |
| Who perfected the technology that made it possible to measure longitude at sea? | |
| What are the layers of the Earth? | Core, Mantle, Crust |
| What is the Lithosphere? | |
| What is the Atmosphere? | |
| What is the Hydrosphere? | |
| What is the Biosphere? | |
| What is a Continent? | |
| What is a Landform? | |
| What is Volcanism? | |
| What is an Earthquake? | |
| What is Plate Tectonics? | |
| What are the 3 Types of Plate boundaries? | Convergent, Divergent, and Transform |
| What is a Subduction Zone? | |
| What is a Convergent Zone? | |
| Who was it that first came up with the Theory of Continental Drift? | Alfred Wegener |
| What is the Richter Scale? | |
| What is the Difference between 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and so forth magnitude earthquakes? | |
| What is the Epicenter of an Earthquake? | |
| What is the Focus of an Earthquake? | |
| What is a Volcano? | |
| What is the difference between Lava and Magma? | |
| What is the Ring of Fire? | |
| Where is the Ring of Fire located? | |
| What are Hot Spots? | |
| How do hot spots relate to the Hawaiian Islands? |
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