Geog 101 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Additions: precip, organic matter, nutrients 2. Transformation: organic matter to humus. Primary (unaltered rock) to secondary minerals (chemically altered, original rock not apparent) by chemical change, dissolution and reprecipitation and biological change. 3. Translocation: Eluviation, Illuviation. 4. Losses: erosion: Leaching. - Soil formation process 1. Cation exchange capacity (CEC): the ability of soil colloids to exchange cations between the surface and the soil solution. This ...

GEOG 101 Week 8 Quiz | Exam Questions and Answers Latest Graded A+. Access to valuable ______ may be playing a role in Papua New Guinea's struggle against islands that want to secede from that nation.  A. agricultural land  B. underwater mineral resources  C. fresh water  D. gambling sites Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is located in Melanesia?  A. Tahiti  B. Samoa  C. Vanuatu  D. Guam Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Poin...

GEOG 101 Week 8 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updated Graded A+. Which of the following is located in Melanesia?  A. Tahiti  B. Samoa  C. Vanuatu  D. Guam Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Australia and New Zealand have a wide area of plants and animals found nowhere else because those organisms evolved in _____.  A. long-term isolation  B. conditions of extreme interspecies competition  C. harsh environmental conditions  D. in the Southern...

Clemson GEOG 101 Exam 2 Study Guide Rated A+ Demography the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations Birth Rates Number of births in a year for every 1000 people Infant Mortality Rates the number of infant deaths under age 1 per 1000 live births Doubling Times The time required for a population to double in size Life Expectancy an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities Natural increase Crude death rate subtracted from c...

The mass of ice that flows under its own weight and forms when snowfall exceeds snow melt over long periods of time. Occupies ~11% of Earth's land area today. - Glacier 1. Powerful agent of geomorphic change. 2. Source of freshwater - ~77% of all freshwater are locked in glaciers. 3. Release nutrients locked up in rocks. 4. Contributes to change in sea level. - Environmental significance of glaciers Related to water volume and ice volume. - Eustatic sea-level Related to land 'posit...

GEOG 101 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia Questions and Answers 2023/2024 Graded A+. Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?  A. Aswan High Dam  B. Cairo  C. Alexandria  D. Suez Canal Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer?  A. Azerbaijan  B. Iraq  C. Turkey  D. Kuwait Question 4 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements about the Maghreb s...

GEOG 101 Quiz 5 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia (Questions and Answers) 2023/2024 Graded A+. Which of the following will not help Turkey's application for membership in the EU?  A. Cession of Crete to Greece  B. Economic improvements.  C. Improved treatment of the Kurdish minority.  D. Resolution of the Cyprus situation. Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?  A. Aswan High Dam  B. Cairo...

GEOG 101 Introduction to Geography - Exam 2 Questions and answers latest update

abrasion - The grinding away of rock by other rock particles carried in water, ice, or wind absolute direction - north, south, east, west absolute distance - spatial separation between two points on the earth's surface Absolute location - geographical coordinates alluvial fans - sand and mud build up in the lakes and at lower elevations; are formed along hillsides alluvium - material that is transported and deposited by streams Antarctic Circle - 66.5°S Applications of GIS - spatial an...