WGU GEOGRAPHY
# Term Definition
1 What are the 5 themes of Location, place, human-environment interaction,
geography? movement, region
2 a concept that refers to thewide Place
range of human activities and
human-environment interactions
that occur in a particularlocation
3 What drives weather? Radiant energy received from the sun
4 The amount of solar energy insolation
intercepted by a particular area of
Earth
5 What are the 2 factors in intensity of solar radiation and number of hours
insolation? a day
6 Daily and seasonal differences in angle of incidence
intensity of solar radiation are
caused by variations in ____.
7 When is the sun directly overhead vernal and autumnal equinoxes
at the equator?
8 When is the sun directly overhead Noon on winter solstice
at the Tropic of Capricorn?
9 Where are there always 12 hours Equator
day/12 hours of night?
10 Variations in the length of daylight 23.5-degree tilt of earth's axis away from sun
from place to place result from
____.
11 movement in any fluid, caused Convection
when part of the fluid (whether
gas or liquid) is heated
12 How does convection affect air is warmed from beneath, expands, and rises.
weather? Cooler air descends to replace it. A common
example is where land (such as an island) is
surrounded by water.
, WGU GEOGRAPHY
# Term Definition
13 Horizontal transfer of air Advection
14 conversion of water from vapor to condensation
liquid state
15 begins when the saturation Precipitation
amount falls below the level of
moisture in the air
16 actual water content of the air, Relative humidity
expressed as a percentage of how
much water the air could hold at a
given temperature
17 occurs when the horizontal winds orographic precipitation
move air against mountain
ranges, forcing air to rise as it
passes over the mountains
18 The leeward side of a mountain Rain shadow
range is often much drier than the
rainy windward side. A dry region
on the leeward side of a mountain
range
19 on our real spinning planet, winds Coriolis effect
follow an indirect, curving path.
This deflection of wind (and any
other object moving above Earth’s
rotating surface)
20 intertropical convergence zone dependable year-round inputs of solar energy
heat the air, causing low pressure and
convectional lifting. Afternoon thunderstorms
are common.
21 Air moving toward the ITCZ is trade winds
deflected by the Coriolis effect
22 Subtropical high-pressure zones air that spreads poleward from the ITCZ
descends at about 30°N and S latitudes in zones
of high pressure that are especially strong over
the oceans.
# Term Definition
1 What are the 5 themes of Location, place, human-environment interaction,
geography? movement, region
2 a concept that refers to thewide Place
range of human activities and
human-environment interactions
that occur in a particularlocation
3 What drives weather? Radiant energy received from the sun
4 The amount of solar energy insolation
intercepted by a particular area of
Earth
5 What are the 2 factors in intensity of solar radiation and number of hours
insolation? a day
6 Daily and seasonal differences in angle of incidence
intensity of solar radiation are
caused by variations in ____.
7 When is the sun directly overhead vernal and autumnal equinoxes
at the equator?
8 When is the sun directly overhead Noon on winter solstice
at the Tropic of Capricorn?
9 Where are there always 12 hours Equator
day/12 hours of night?
10 Variations in the length of daylight 23.5-degree tilt of earth's axis away from sun
from place to place result from
____.
11 movement in any fluid, caused Convection
when part of the fluid (whether
gas or liquid) is heated
12 How does convection affect air is warmed from beneath, expands, and rises.
weather? Cooler air descends to replace it. A common
example is where land (such as an island) is
surrounded by water.
, WGU GEOGRAPHY
# Term Definition
13 Horizontal transfer of air Advection
14 conversion of water from vapor to condensation
liquid state
15 begins when the saturation Precipitation
amount falls below the level of
moisture in the air
16 actual water content of the air, Relative humidity
expressed as a percentage of how
much water the air could hold at a
given temperature
17 occurs when the horizontal winds orographic precipitation
move air against mountain
ranges, forcing air to rise as it
passes over the mountains
18 The leeward side of a mountain Rain shadow
range is often much drier than the
rainy windward side. A dry region
on the leeward side of a mountain
range
19 on our real spinning planet, winds Coriolis effect
follow an indirect, curving path.
This deflection of wind (and any
other object moving above Earth’s
rotating surface)
20 intertropical convergence zone dependable year-round inputs of solar energy
heat the air, causing low pressure and
convectional lifting. Afternoon thunderstorms
are common.
21 Air moving toward the ITCZ is trade winds
deflected by the Coriolis effect
22 Subtropical high-pressure zones air that spreads poleward from the ITCZ
descends at about 30°N and S latitudes in zones
of high pressure that are especially strong over
the oceans.
