Physical+Geography

Physical Geography focuses on the make up of the earth, including natural landscapes, bodies of water, continents and plates, climate and vegetation.

Study Skills:

Learning from a World Map.
First, concentrate on learning the continents, oceans, and largest islands. Second, focus in on major physical features (such as mountain ranges, lakes and rivers) Types of Maps: Globe, Mercator, Tripel, Goode's Interrupted Homolosine
 * Globe || Mercator Projection Map ||
 * [[image:Discovery-Globe-thumb.jpg]] || [[image:Mercator.gif width="400" height="265"]] ||
 * Winkel Tripel Projection Map || Goode's Interrupted Homolosine Projection Map ||
 * [[image:MapWinkelTripelProjection.png width="326" height="349"]] || [[image:terra_11.gif width="350" height="130"]] ||

Physical Geography Terms:

 * Latitude || Longitute || Coodinates ||
 * Absolute Location || Equator || Northern Hemisphere ||
 * Southern Hemisphere || Parallels || North Pole ||
 * South Pole || Tropic of Cancer || Tropic of Capricorn ||
 * Tropics || Subtropics || Arctic Circle ||
 * Antarctic Circle || Prime Merdian || Meridians ||
 * Cardinal Directions || Intermediate Direction || Volcano ||
 * Strait || Sound || Peninsula ||
 * Isthmus || Spit || Lagoon ||
 * Bay || Delta || Divide ||
 * Reservoir || Glacier || Desert ||
 * Mesa || Canyon || Current ||
 * Climate ||  ||   ||

Physical Features to Know:
How many are there? What are their names? What is their landmass area? What percent of the earth do each of them make up? || The Oceans: What are their names? What is their area? What percent of the earth do they make up? || Altitude: What is the highest point of each continent? What is the lowest point of each continent? || What are the 10 larges seas? What are their areas? Where are they located? || Lakes: What are the world's 10 largest lakes? What are their areas? Where are they located? || Islands: What are the world's 10 largest islands? What is their land area? Where are they located? || What is the biggest river system in each continent? What is the biggest river in the world? Which is the longest river in the world? || Mountain Ranges: What are the major mountain ranges on each continent? Which are the highest peaks? || Earth's extremes? -The Hottest Place -The Coldest Place -The Wettest Place -The Driest Place -Highest Waterfall -Largest Desert -Largest Canyon -Longest Reef -Greatest Tides || What are the 5 major climate regions? Where on the earth are the climate regions located? || Vegetation: How does vegetation collate to climate? What are the major vegetation regions? Where are they located? || Currents What are the major ocean currents? Where do they flow? How do they influence climate? || What are the major tectonic plates? How do they influence land features? ||  ||   ||
 * The Continents:
 * Seas:
 * Rivers:
 * Climate Regions:
 * Tectonic Plates

Online Assistance:
[|Oceans and Seas] || [|"Physical" Geography Quiz][|North, South, East, West] [|More Physical Geography Quizzes] || [|Physicalgeography.net] ||
 * [|Deserts, Mountains, and Rivers]

Practice Questions:
__The Continents:__ 1. The North Atlantic current bring warm waters from the tropics to the west coast of which continent? 2. Both the prime meridian and the Equator cross which continent? 3. The Bellingshausen Sea and the Ross Sea both border which continent? 4. The Great Dividing Range lies in the eastern part of which continent? 5. Which continent produces the largest total amount of rice? 6. Chinchillas and llamas are native to which continent? 7. Which continent is second largest in area? 8. The Middle East serves as a crossroads between Asia, Africa and what other continent? 9. The world's longest coral reef is in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of which continent? 10. The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that flows along the eastern coast of which continent?

__Physical Geography:__ 1. What is the term for a part of an ocean or sea that cuts far into the bordering landmass and may contain one or more bays? 2. The study of the processes in Earth's atmosphere that produce day-to-day weather is called what? 3. What is the term for a narrow, natural waterway that connects to larger bodies of water? 4. An archipelago is a group of what physical features found in a body of water? 5. What term is used for the type of heat energy within the Earth that can be used to generate electricity? 6. What theory explains the shifting positions and ongoing movements of the continents? 7. What Norwegian word is used for a narrow, steep-sided inlet of the sea that was carved by a glacier? 8. What term is used for the often triangular-shaped deposit of sediment sometimes found at the mouth of a river? 9. What is the term for the point on the earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake originates? 10. A moraine is made up of soil, rocks, and other materials that have been deposited by the action of what kind of physical feature?