GGS 101 Final Exam Review Sheet | George Mason University | AG Section

GGS 101 Final Exam Review Sheet | George
Mason University | AG Section
What are the 7 ways that determine temperature in a particular location? - Correct Answers a)
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Angle at which sun's rays strike the earth
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b) Number of daylight hours
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c) Amount of water vapor in air
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d) Degree of cloud cover
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e) Nature of earth's surface
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f) Elevation and sea level
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g) Degree of air movement
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Il` what is geography - Correct Answers the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and
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Il` What is a temperature inversion? - Correct Answers when rapid reradiating causes
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Il` temperatures to be higher than above earth's surface that at the surface itself. Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` What is meant by lapse rate? - Correct Answers the change in temperature with altitude
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Il` averaging 3.5 degrees per 100 feet Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` How is it important to climatology? - Correct Answers is the study of climate and how it changes
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Il` over time. This science helps people better understand the atmospheric conditions that cause
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Il` What causes the circulatory motion of air pressure systems? - Correct Answers Friction with the
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Il` earth's surface causes air to flow spirally outward across the isobars from a High and spirally
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Il` inward around a Low. Because of the Earth's surface is unevenly heated, there are big differences
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Il` in air temperature from the equator to the poles and over different types of terrain
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,Il` How do different air pressuresystems respond to this force? - Correct Answers Air in high
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Il` pressure systems moves in an anticlockwise direction (in the southern hemisphere), while air in
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Il` low pressure systems moves in a clockwise direction due to the rotation of the Earth. At the
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Il` surface of the Earth air flows from high pressure systems into low pressure systems.
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Il` Identify the characteristics of Warm Fronts - Correct Answers slow moving, usually generates
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Il` drawn out periods of steady light precipitation, usually followed by low pressure system
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Il` Identify the characteristics of Cold Fronts - Correct Answers fast moving, covering an average of
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Il` 600 miles per day, usually followed by a high pressure system
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Il` Identify and explain the 3 common types of precipitation. - Correct Answers 1) Cyclonic or
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Il` Frontal Precipitation-rainfall, also known as frontal rain, is caused when two air masses of
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Il` different temperatures meet. Warm air and cool air don´t mix, as they have different densities. As
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Il` the warm air rises over the heavier cool air, it cools and creates a front; clouds form and produce
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2) Convectional Precipitation- rising and heated moisture (laden air)
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(3) Orographic Precipitation- warm moist air forced up mountain where it cools and
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Il` What is Geography? - Correct Answers is the study of places and the relationships between
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Il` What were some of the lasting contributions of the Roman Empire to the rest of Europe? -
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Il` Correct Answers conquered vast amounts of land in Europe and northern Africa, built roads and
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Il` aqueducts, and spread Latin, their language, far and wide Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Eratosthenes - Correct Answers in full Eratosthenes of Cyrene, (born c. 276 bce, Cyrene, Libya—
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died c. 194 bce, Alexandria, Egypt), Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, who made the
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, Il` first measurement of the size of Earth for which any details are known. invented a system of
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Il` longitude and latitude and made a map of the known world. distance between Alexandria and
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Il` Cyrene is 500 miles. Syene is located at the edge of the tropic of cancer 23.5 degree north.
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Il` invented a system of longitude and latitude and made a map of the known world.
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Il` Alexander von Humboldt - Correct Answers nature researcher and explorer, universal genius Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` and cosmopolitan, scientist and patron. His lengthy Latin American journey from 1799 to 1804
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Il` was celebrated as the second scientific discovery of South America.
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Il` Mark Jefferson - Correct Answers 1863-1949) was the chief cartographer of the American
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Il` Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He was also the head of the geography Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




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Il` Claudius Ptolemy(90-163 AD) - Correct Answers writes a book a called geography. his
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Il` controversial geocentric theory of the universe, which would form the basis of our understanding Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` of the motions of stars and planets for over than a thousand years.
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Il` Abraham Ortelius - Correct Answers Not an Academic, Cartographer and a collector, planned a
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Il` map book, his maps itlay, germany,france and netherlands etc. Flemish cartographer and dealer
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Il` in maps, books, and antiquities, who published the first modern atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum
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Il` Gerard Mercator - Correct Answers working on navigational problem, plot a course with a
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Il` straight line on a curved surface. the Mercator projection, is a geographical chart where the
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Il` spherical globe is flattened into a two-dimensional map, with latitude and longitude lines drawn
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Il` in a straight grid. Mercator's view of the world is one that has endured through the centuries and
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Il` still helps navigators today.
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Il` Köppen & Geiger - Correct Answers to denote different climate regions on Earth based on local
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