1. Unit One: Physical Geography
World Geography
Unit One: Physical Geography
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2. Unit One: Physical Geography
General Terms
Lat & Long.
& Maps
Structure of
the Earth
Plate
Tectonics
Climate
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3. 1 - $100 QUESTION: ANSWER: Mapmakers are also known as ________.
Cartographers

4. 1 - $200 QUESTION: ANSWER: What kind of map shows topography?
Physical map.

5. 1 - $300
QUESTION:
What are the trade winds and which way do they blow?
ANSWER:
The prevailing winds in the low latitudes that blow from east to west.

6. 1 - $400 QUESTION: ANSWER: What is the overhead sun?
When the sun’s rays form a 90° angle with a certain part of the Earth

7. 1 - $500
QUESTION:
An underwater extension of the coastal plain is called a(n)
ANSWER:
continental shelf.

8. 2 - $100 QUESTION: ANSWER: Which directions do lines of latitude run?
East – west. (Latitude is always flat.)

9. 2 - $200
QUESTION:
Type your question in here relating to Topic 2. As the Points get higher make questions harder.
ANSWER:
(type answer here)

10. 2 - $300
QUESTION:
If a map does not have a compass rose, what can we assume?
ANSWER:
It is oriented due North.

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QUESTION:
The line of zero degrees longitude begins at:
ANSWER:
Greenwich, England

12. 2 - $500 QUESTION: ANSWER: Explain the Great Circle Routes?
A great circle route is the shortest distance between two points on the surface of the Earth.

13. 3 - $100
QUESTION:
What is at the center of the Earth and how would you describe it?
ANSWER:
The Core; super duper super hot.

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QUESTION:
What do we call the land on which we live and also on which the ocean’s water sits?
ANSWER:
the Lithosphere

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QUESTION:
What do we call the area where humans and animals live?
ANSWER:
the Biosphere

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QUESTION:
Explain the mantle and how it relates to the crust.
ANSWER:
The mantle is a hot magma layer of the Earth that is always changing. Hot magma travels to the surface of the Earth and escapes as lava in volcanoes. The Crust floats on the mantle (like a waterbed…)

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QUESTION:
Explain the Ring of Fire? What part of the world does it effect?
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18. 4 - $100 QUESTION: ANSWER: Explain the theory of Continental Drift.
All the continents were once unified in a supercontinent called Pangea and spread apart over time—most likely through seafloor spreading—and moved to their current locations.

19. 4 - $200 QUESTION: ANSWER: Where do earthquakes occur?
Fault lines (cracks in the crust).

20. 4 - $300 QUESTION: ANSWER: What force drives the plates’ movements?
The heat of the Earth’s core

21. 4 - $400 QUESTION: ANSWER: What is spreading?
Sea plates spread apart creating a crack in the lithosphere.

22. 4 - $500 QUESTION: ANSWER: What is subduction?
When a sea plate slowly dives under a continental plate.

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QUESTION:
Ocean currents bring _____ water from the polar regions to the equator and ______ water from the equator to the polar regions.
ANSWER:
Cold; hot

24. 5 - $200
QUESTION:
Ocean currents bring _____ water from the polar regions to the equator and ______ water from the equator to the polar regions.
ANSWER:
Cold; hot

25. 5 - $300
QUESTION:
How can the climate of the low latitudes can be characterized?
ANSWER:
hot and humid.

26. 5 - $400
QUESTION:
The _____ receive warm air masses in summer and cold ones in winter.
ANSWER:
midlatitudes

27. 5 - $500 QUESTION: ANSWER: Currently, Earth is tilted on its axis at
23.5°.

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