Dry and Rainy Seasons in Africa (from satellite)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Desertification/Images/ndvi_trmm_combined_sm.mov

MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

Name: __________________________________________________________________ Date: __________________

MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

1. Vocabulary
   
   1. Section 1.1
      
      1. geography
         
      2. environment
         
      3. spatial
         
      4. region
         
      5. location
         
   2. Section 1.2
      
      1. database
         
      2. globe
         
      3. cartographer (person)
         
      4. Global Positioning System (GPS)
         
      5. atmosphere
         
   3. Section 1.3 (people)
      
      1. surveyor
         
      2. urban planner
         
      3. location analyst
         
      4. climatologist
         
   4. Section 2.1
      
      1. atmosphere
         
      2. crust
         
      3. mantle
         
      4. outer core
         
      5. inner core
         
      6. continents
         
      7. Pangaea
         
      8. volcano
         
      9. earthquake
         
      10. tectonic plates
          
          1. spreading
             
          2. colliding
             
          3. diving
             
          4. sliding
             
      11. Ring of Fire
          
      12. magma
          
      13. weathering (how is it different from erosion?)
          
      14. erosion (how is it different from weathering?)
          
      15. glaciers
          
   5. Section 2.2 – Bodies of Water and Landforms
      
      1. fresh water
         
      2. salt water
         
      3. drainage basin
         
      4. ground water
         
      5. hydrologic cycle
         
      6. atmosphere
         
      7. evaporation
         
      8. condensation
         
      9. precipitation
         
      10. runoff
          
      11. landforms
          
          1. how do earthquakes and volcanoes create new landforms?
             
   6. Section 2.3 – Climate and Vegetation
      
      1. equator
         
      2. solstice
         
      3. equinox
         
      4. North Pole
         
      5. South Pole
         
      6. tropical zone
         
      7. temperate zone
         
      8. arctic zone
         
      9. longitude
         
      10. precipitation
          
      11. climate (how is it different from weather?)
          
      12. weather (how is different from climate?)
          
2. Pictures
   
   1. You must know how to draw and explain...
      
      1. the earth's rotation
         
      2. wind erosion
         
      3. water erosion
         
      4. ice erosion
         
      5. the hydrological cycle
         
      6. earthquakes and volcanoes creating new landforms
         
      7. tectonic plate movements (colliding, spreading, diving, and sliding)
         
3. HINTS
   
   1. First, make sure you know how to draw everything
      
   2. Second, make sure you know the vocabulary words
      

Finally, think of how to write the answers.

World Climographs

Here is a website that has climographs of different cities and regions of the world.

http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/616/631756/abcontrol/pages/question.html

Mr. Gibson

WE HAD 16 EARTHQUAKES ON SUNDAY!!!!

Ni hao,

Follow this link. On Oct. 4th Taiwan had sixteen earthquakes! You can read about them at the United States Geological Survey Website.

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/seismic/quake_index.htm

Mr. Gibson

Erosion

Loess Plateau (wind erosion)
picture= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5902-Linxia-County-Xihe-township-canyon.jpg
article = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau

Why is erosion so bad in Northern China? How much of the erosion is natural erosion? How much of the erosion is caused by human beings? Why do they continue to do it?

VOLCANOES!!!

Here is a diagram of a volcano...
http://www.nuuanu.k12.hi.us/G-1/public_html/websites/Lance/images/volcano.jpg

Here are where all the world's volcanoes are located...
http://www.intute.ac.uk/hazards/images/volcano_world.gif

Here's what happens when the gases start to come up from the mantle...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaChWgbn18Y

Fault Lines
http://www.jochemnet.de/fiu/earth3.jpg

The Ring of Fire
http://share1.esd105.wednet.edu/bishopcj/AU/essimages/ring_of_fire_red.GIF

What happens when your country is on the Ring of Fire? Just ask Indonesia, Alaska, and Japan...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Map_indonesia_volcanoes.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Map_of_alaska_volcanoes_carlisle.jpg
http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/shared/japan-volcanoes.gif

Hydrologic Cycle

Here are some drawings of what happens during the Hydrologic Cycle.

http://www.solcomhouse.com/images/hydroweath.jpg

http://www.buffer.forestry.iastate.edu/Photogallery/illustrations/Images/Hydrologic-Cycle.jpg

This one has some definitions for you!

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/images/nature/prop/hydrologic-rev.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/en/nature/prop/e_cycle.htm&h=301&w=450&sz=22&tbnid=m8QCtuEdY4wa4M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhydrologic%2Bcycle&hl=en&usg=__lTsLC9Zp5r7YNta2d8DvRwFq6kw=&ei=DUbJSqzIHYWO6AOqhZjwBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=6&ct=image