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| Geography is a _____ science? |
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| Physical Geography studies... |
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| Weather, landforms, and soil. |
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| How many timezones are on the earth? |
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| Parallels run___ and run ___ from the equator. |
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| East to West and run North to South. |
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1. Graphic scale
2. Verbal Scale
3. represenative fraction. (unitless) |
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| Which would be a small scale map? |
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a) Detroit
b) Michigan
c) US
***d) North America |
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| incoming solar radiation. |
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1) Earths Shape
2) Earths Tilt
3) Rotation
4)Revolution
5) Parallelism of earths axis. |
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| The uneven distribution of Earths heating is primarily due to... |
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| If a baseball player wants to get the most daylight hours this day would be best... |
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| The tropic of Cancer lies at |
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| The Arctic Circle lies at... |
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| The tropic of Capricorn lies at... |
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| The Antarctic circle lies at... |
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| The circle of illumination passes where on the winter solstice? |
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| tangent to the arctic and antarctic circle. |
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| the subsolar point on the fall equinox is... |
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| Most abundant gas in the atmosphere |
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1. Nitrogen (78%)
2. 02 (21%)
3. Argon/ trace gasses (1%) |
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1. function (2 layers)
2. composition (2 layers)
3. Temperature (4 layers) |
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| wind chill is based on what two factors? |
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| the single most influential variable on temperature is? |
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| the greatest anual range of temperatures occur over asia...? |
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* High pressure to low
* Named after the direction they come from |
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| facing into wind, coller, wetter. |
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least at equator
most at poles (omph)
apparent deflection to the right from the objects direction. |
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strength determines by:
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- proximity to surface
- speed of the wind |
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| winds that blow perpindicular to the isobars |
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| coreolis provides deflection to the ... |
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