Transcript Unit 1 test study guide

Unit 1 test study guide
Climate
(1)
• What is the most important factor determining
the climate of a region?
latitude
Delta
• Deltas
______ are common
landforms created by
rivers flowing into a
larger body of water
as the river waters
meet the tide of the
larger bodies of
water.
(2)
(3)
• An underwater earthquake along a subduction
zone can cause this:
Tsunami
Climate
(4)
- Temperature ranges in areas located near oceans do not
vary much because water heats and cools more slowly.
- Temperature ranges in-land, far away from the influence of
water temperatures will vary more. (continentality)
Subsistence farming (5)
• Subsistence
agriculture is selfsufficiency farming in
which farmers grow
only enough food to
feed their families .
In more developed areas, the building of dams
have helped improve farming and a better way of life
by providing electricity and a reservoir for irrigation.
(6) Climate is the weather conditions of a
particular location over a long period of time
As with polar bears, other
bears such as black
bears, thrive better in the
higher latitudes.
Answer to the question… (7)
A human modification of the environment means that
humans have actually changed some part of the physical
environment.
(building dams, canals, roads, etc.)
Human adaptation to the environment is a change in
human behavior to cope with environmental
conditions.
(wearing heavy clothes in the winter or cold climates,
wearing light clothes in summer or warm climates,
heating homes, air-conditioning & insulation in
homes, & preparing for a hurricane, etc.)
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Sun Earth Relation (8)
• When does a hemisphere have a warm
climate?
When it is tilted towards the sun
Physical maps (9)
Vegetation maps are
physical maps that
show a regions
physical
characteristics,
such as vegetation.
They also will show
man made features
as well.
Region 10.
States in the
same region
will have
the same
physical
charteristics
of :
Climate, Elevation and Landforms
(11)
• To give the relative location of a place, you
would give the directions to the place in
relation to the places surrounding it.
• For example, if I said, "My house is near the
school," that's a relative location. I'm telling
you where my house is located relative to the
school.
Absolute location 12
• Latitude/Longitude
List two factor that change landforms
(13)
Chemical Weathering
This is caused by
chemical reactions as a
result of interactions
between elements in the
air or water and the
minerals in the rock (water
and substances dissolved
in it) rather than by
mechanical processes.
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• Mechanical weathering is the physical that change
the characteristics of rock on or near the earth’s
surface, occurring slowly over many years.
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