US/ Canada border is known as
inclusionary boundary
West/East Germany border was known as
exclusionary boundary
Religion of Scandinavia is
Protestant
Eastern Europe and Russia is dominated by the religion
Eastern Orthodox
Religion of India is
Hindu
Religion of China and SE Asia is
Buddhism
Religion of Japan is
Shintoism
Religion of North Africa and the Middle East is
Islam
The religion of Latin America is
Catholic
The religion of North America, Australia, New Zealand is
Protestant
The religion of Western and most of northern Europe, except for places like Ireland, is
Protestant
The religion of Southern Europe, along with looking at exceptions like Romania and Greece, is
Catholic
Original single giant continent was
Pangea
The 2 sub continents were
Laurasia and Gonwanaland
comes from the theory of plate tectonics. That continents have, are, and will continue to be moving on the earth's crust
Continental Drift
Where plates pull apart
divergent boundary
A collision of continental landmasses that produces a mountain range or when the oceanic crust collides with another plate and sinks down toward a deep-ocean trench
convergent boundary
When plates slide past each other
transform plate boundary
California and the Pacific Ocean boundaries are an example of
divergent boundary
Mid Atlantic Ridge is an example of
divergent boundary
Side to side plates are an example of
transform boundary
ITCZ stand for
Inter Tropical Convergence Zone
Wet, humid, always hot to very warm area near the equator
ITCZ (Inter Tropical Convergence Zone)
There are 24 hours of darkness on what date below the Antarctic Circle on the Winter Solstice
June 21
There are 24 hours of darkness on what date above the Arctic Circle on the Summer Solstice
December 21
The atmospheric circulation between 30-60 degrees N & S latitude is
Ferrell Cell
The atmospheric circulation between 30 degrees N and 30 degrees S is
Hadley Cell
The sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees N on
Summer Solstice
The sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5 degrees S on
Winter Solstice
The 2 dates on which the entire world receives 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night (the Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox)
March 21 and September 21
The Indian tectonic plate left Gonwanaland and collided with the Laurasia plate has uplifted what mountain range?
Himalayas Mountains
Surface wind direction between 30 degrees N and S
the Trade Winds
The surface wind direction north of the Tropic of Cancer at 30 60 degrees N and S
the Westerlies
The surface wind direction between 60-90 degrees N and S
the Polar Easterlies
Where are the world's deserts?
20-30 degrees latitude N & S
Where are the world's wet areas?
Outside ITCZ at 60 degrees N & S
Summer Solstice dates
June 21-22
Winter solstice dates
December 21-22
Artificially increased rainfall due to topographic that is on the windward side of a mountain range
orographic
The major influence on the world's ecosystems
patterns of climate
3 great rain forests of the world
Amazon, Congo, Indonesia
Canada is dominated by what climate where at least 1 month averages below freezing
microthermal climate
Climates that have no months that are below 32 degrees
Mesothermal
Sweden, Norway, Finland vegetation is dominated by tundra, where it is too cold for tress to grow. Looks like grass, but but genetically unique. What is it?
Lapland
the spatial dispersion of a previously homogeneous group of people
diaspora
Last US state to have a high % of native Indian land is
Oklahoma
Early European slash and burn culture was known as this. Make room for agricultural practices. Still done in the Amazon in Brazil.
swidden
Norway, Sweden and Finland are in this peninsula
Scandinavian
Italy is in what peninsula
Italian
Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and Macedonia are on what peninsula
Balkan
Spain and Portugal are on what peninsula
Iberian
deep, narrow, and elongated sea or lakedrain, with steep land on three sides (found in Norway, Alaska, British Columbia, New Zealand)
Fiords
flows to the North Sea
Rhine River
Greenland is owned by
Denmark
Iceland got its independence from Denmark in what year?
1947
River that flows to the Black Sea
Danube River
Reclaimed land from the sea in the Netherlands are
polders
this much of the Netherlands is below sea level
half
Sea between Sweden and Finland
Baltic Sea
Channel between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe
English Channel
Capital of Finland
Helsinki
Capital of Norway
Oslo
Capital of Sweden
Stockholm
Capital of United Kingdom
London
Capital of Ireland
Dublin
Capital of Germany
Berlin
Capital of Denmark
Copenhagen
Captial of Spain
Madrid
Capital of Portugal
Lisbon
Capital of France
Paris
Capital of Poland
Warsaw
Capital of Switzerland
Bern
Capital of Ukraine
Kiev
Capital of Hungary
Budapest
Capital of Greece
Athens
Capital of Italy
Vatican City
In 1977, when Voyager I photographed Earth as a blue planet in a black universe is the concept of
existential reasoning
Circle of Latitude at 23.5 degrees South
Tropic of Capricorn
Circle of Latitude at 23.5 degrees North
Tropic of Cancer
0 degrees longitude focuses on the section of London called Greenwich. 0 degrees longitude is called what?
Prime Meridian
Circle of Latitude at 66.5 degrees North
Arctic Circle
Circle of Latitude at 66.5 degrees South
Antarctic Circle
Earth's axis is tilted at how many degrees? Reason for the location of the Earth's grid and seasons.
23.5 degrees
Maps that use shadings to represent geographic data are
choropleth maps
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian part of what language family?
Romance languages
Swedish, Norweigan, Danish, English are part of what language family
Germanic languages
Eastern Europe is dominated by what language?
Balto Slavic
Finland and Hungary are part of what language family?
Uralic language
Sea to the east of Italy
Adriatic Sea
Sea between Greece and Italy
Ionian Sea
Sea to the east of Greece
Aegean Sea
Sea to the east of Italy
Adriatic Sea
Sea between Netherlands, Norway, and Great Britain
North Sea
Sea south of Europe
Mediterranean Sea
Sea south of Sweden
Baltic Sea