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The exact location of a place on Earth, as described by global coordinates.

The position of a place in relation to another place.

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.

<p>An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The flow of things, people, and ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The complex web of multiway relationships between people and their impact on the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of actions or mechanisms that combine to create equilibrium, which can be changed under extreme stress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collection of subsystems that combine to create equilibrium, which can be changed under extreme stress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A feedback loop in which change in a system is amplified.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The last major Ice Age, beginning about 2.6 million years ago and ending about 11,700 years ago.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The geological era since the end of the Great Ice Age about 11,000 years ago. The moderate climate has supported the massive agricultural revolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The science or art of making maps.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A change in the shape, size, or position of a place when it is shown on a map.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scale where social or natural processes play out and are investigated at a certain level of analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder. Accurately shows shape and direction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A map projection that shows the relative sizes of the earth's continents accurately (equal area). Distorts the shape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A 20th-century map of Earth with equal area of landmasses but interruptions of the oceans to more accurately represent a 'flattened' sphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A map projection in which a region of the earth is projected onto a plane tangential to the surface, typically at a pole or the equator.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Circles used to visualize distortions due to map projection. These circles are equal in area before projection, but distorted afterwards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system that accurately determines the absolute location of something on Earth using triangulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from satellite and aerial imagery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The place in Earth's orbit where Earth is farthest away from the sun. Occurs on July 4 and is approximately 94.5 million miles away from the sun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The place in Earth's orbit where Earth is closest to the sun. Occurs on January 3 and is approximately 91.5 million miles away from the sun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Periodic variation in the Sun's magnetic activity and appearance over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dark areas of the Sun's surface, which are cooler than surrounding areas caused by magnetic storms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When sunspot activity is at its lowest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When sunspot activity is at its highest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The area surrounding Earth that is influenced by Earth's magnetic field.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All energy traveling in waves through space. Includes light, heat, x-rays, radar, and radio waves; classified by wavelength.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Incoming solar radiation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The average insolation received at the top of the atmosphere when Earth is at its average distance from the Sun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The point on Earth where the sun angle is 90° and solar radiation strikes the surface most directly at any given point in time (only occurs in the tropics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Total incoming radiation minus outgoing radiation: positive in the tropics; negative at the poles. Imbalances drive circulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Position of the sun relative to the horizon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Time of day when sun is highest in the sky.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Latitude of the subsolar point. Migrates between the Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N, June solstice) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5°S, December solstice). At the Equator at equinoxes (March and September).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dividing line between day and night.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plan of orbit which Earth follows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The angle at which a planet's axis tilts (23.5 degrees).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The force exerted by the mass and motion of air particles. Lower at high altitudes, high temperatures, and high humidity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Force exerted on Earth's surface by the weight of the air above it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The upper layer of Earth's atmosphere, which exists higher than roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) above sea level, where the gases are layered by atomic weight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), argon (.9%).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Water vapor, carbon dioxide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Causes the atmosphere to hold onto solar radiation and keeps the Earth warm. Caused by natural and human-accelerated changes, overall causing the Earth to warm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Carbon dioxide (77%), methane (14%), and nitrous oxide (8%). They absorb infrared heat radiating from the earth and heat the lower atmosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forest fires, dust storms, volcanoes, earthquakes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Photochemical smog (automobile exhaust; high in Nitrogen oxides), Industrial smog (high in CO2, particulates, and Sulfur oxides), aerosol, and soot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Solid or liquid particles suspended in gas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unimpeded movement of electromagnetic energy through a medium such as air, water, or glass.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caused by particles in the atmosphere intercepting and changing the direction of radiation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The energy that reaches the Earth's surface after it has been scattered.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bending of radiation as it passes through a medium.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caused by light waves being refracted by different layers of air at different temperatures and densities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gas molecules scattering shorter wavelengths more than long wavelengths, causing the sky to appear blue.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scattering by particles that are larger than visible wavelengths, causing the sky to appear white.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability of a surface to reflect light. Lower sun altitude=more absorption.</p> Signup and view all the answers