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- 3. Feedback that promotes instability. Think of what happened when the wolves were removed from Yellowstone National Park.
- 4. Parallelism is the unchanging orientation of the Earth’s axis
- 6. Type of map that shows man-made and natural features on the ground
- 7. Cooling portion of ENSO, sea surface temperatures may decrease to more than 0.7 F° below normal
- 8. Warming portion of ENSO, sea surface temperatures may increase to more than 1.4 F° above normal
- 10. El Niño Southern Oscillation, the phenomenon of shifting of sea-surface temperatures (SSTs), air pressure, and winds across the equatorial Pacific, influences marine ecosystems as well as global precipitation and storm movement and ultimately affects global climates
- 13. Geographic Information System manages and analyzes data using different layers.
- 17. A measure of the average kinetic energy of individual molecules in matter
- 22. Type of map that takes a subject and makes the geographic features fit within a certain theme
- 24. Earth takes 365 days to go around the sun
- 25. Feedback that discourages change, brings a system to equilibrium. Think shivering when you are cold or when the wolves were returned to Yellowstone National Park.
- 26. One of the systems of earth
- 27. Trying to fit a 3D earth to a 2D surface
- 29. Splits earth into north and south hemispheres, the equator is the reference point, lines run parallel to each other
- 31. One of the systems of earth
- 32. The point at which insolation hits the earth from directly overhead, at a 90° angle); moves between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
- 33. One of the systems of earth
- 34. Second layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere, good ozone is found here. This is the layer that ultraviolet radiation is converted to heat energy
- 35. One of the systems of earth
- 36. It takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach the earth from the sun
- 37. Reflectiveness of a surface
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- 1. Earth takes 24 hours to spin on its axis
- 2. The warm current that moves northward off the east coast of North America and carries warm water into the North Atlantic
- 5. This scale map is a small area with lots of details
- 9. Splits the earth into east and west hemispheres, the Prime Meridian in Greenwich England is the reference point, lines meet at a point on the north and south poles
- 11. This produces the atmospheric distortion of the setting Sun, this occurs when insolation changes speed, which in turn shifts its direction making a bending action. This could have been a factor in the sinking of the Titanic
- 12. Happens when light rays get diverted from their straight path by encountering a cloud or a raindrop or other atmospheric obstacle. This gives us the redness we see when the sun rises or sets.
- 14. Is one of the questions a geographer is always asking. The other is why there.
- 15. Study of the earth’s shape
- 16. This map scale is a large area map with little detail.
- 17. Of the earth’s axis is 23.5 degrees
- 18. Aurous Borealis occur here
- 19. The force that, because of the earth's rotation, deflects moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
- 20. Heat that occurs when energy is gained or lost when a substance changes from one state to another.
- 21. Heat sphere
- 23. Incoming Solar Radiation and is the most important influence on temperature variations
- 28. Type of map that shows boundaries, geographic areas, but does not visualize data. Think road map.
- 30. Layer of the atmosphere starts at earth’s surface and contains life