AP Human Geo Test
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| taking a 3D object and making it flat | ||
| the art of making and studying maps | ||
| lists and explains the symbols used on a map | ||
| a line on a map representing proportionate size | ||
| elevation | ||
| show geographical features | ||
| show territorial borders | ||
| branch of natural science that deals with the natural environment | ||
| run east to west; 0 degrees equals equator | ||
| run north to south; 0 degrees equals prime meridian | ||
| the earth rotates around its axis; causes day and night | ||
| the earth moves around the sun; causes seasons | ||
| where people live | ||
| the movement of earth's continents relative to each other | ||
| the study of the motion of earth's plates | ||
| the most active of the plate movements | ||
| plates are moving away from each other | ||
| plates are moving toward each other | ||
| plates slide past each other | ||
| part of the longest mountain range in the world; divergent tectonic plate boundary | ||
| created the theory of continental drift | ||
| one plate is forced underneath another | ||
| a flow of superheated gas, rock, and ash from a volcano | ||
| longest day or longest night | ||
| closest possible equal time of day or night | ||
| tropical; 0-30 degrees north/0-30 degrees south | ||
| dry | ||
| temperate; 30-60 degrees north/ 30-60 degrees south | ||
| humid | ||
| polar | ||
| resemble e climates | ||
| measures the movement of the earth | ||
| the scale a seismograph uses | ||
| the water cycle | ||
| lava that is underground | ||
| a large sea wave produced by an underwater volcanic eruption | ||
| cloud hits mountain; makes desert | ||
| equator is accurate-farther away-more distortion | ||
| all is distorted-looks right | ||
| equator to scale-oceans cut or interrupted | ||
| accurate at center-distorted near edges | ||
| water is accurate-land distorted | ||
| mercator, robinson, interrupted, azimuthul, peters | ||
| where you are in space and what is around you | ||
| eratosthenes | ||
| location, place, human-environment interaction, region, movement | ||
| global address-absolute location/relative location | ||
| what is there-physical/human | ||
| relationships within places | ||
| humans interacting on the earth | ||
| how they form and change | ||
| understanding earth's changing surface |