WGU C255 Intro to Geography, Geography c255, WGU Geography
0-2 Degrees latitude - ✔✔Tropical
20-35 Degrees latitude - ✔✔Subtropical
45-60 degrees latitude - ✔✔Continental
5 themes of geography - ✔✔Location, place, movement, region, human environment interaction
60 degrees and higher latitude - ✔✔Tundra
Absolute location - ✔✔Exact
acid deposition - ✔✔Commonly known as acid rain. Occurs when sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides are
discharged into the atmosphere. Kills fish and plants and harms soil
adiabatic cooling - ✔✔Term for the decrease in temperature that results from expansion of rising air
advection - ✔✔The horizontal movements of air or substances by wind or ocean currents
Any Darya River - ✔✔In Uzbekistan, flows into Arab Sea
Archive circle - ✔✔66.5 N
area analysis - ✔✔Analysis which integrates the geographic features of an area or a place. Focuses on
regions.
, arithmetic density (population density) - ✔✔The number of people per unit of area
Balkanization - ✔✔The breakup of a large political unit, Eastern Europe, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian
Balkanization along national lines has characterized this region - ✔✔Eastern Europe
Barriers to migration - ✔✔Physical, economic, financial, cultural, political
Bedouin - ✔✔Nomadic people of North Africa and Middle East
Biome - ✔✔A large grouping of ecosystems characterized by particular plant and animal types
Civil war divides by religious lines - ✔✔Sub Saharan Africa
climate - ✔✔The statistical summary of weather over time; includes both the average conditions and
the extremes
concentration - ✔✔The distribution of a phenomenon within a given area. Close proximity is
concentrated, far apart is dispersed.
conformal map - ✔✔A map that distorts size but preserves shape
Contains an increasingly large share of the world population - ✔✔Developing nations
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