Physical Geography

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Physical Geography
MISC
Climate Conditions
Desertification
HEI
Weathering and Erosion
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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question Climate Conditions
The cooling of ocean surface off the coast of
South America
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100 Answer Climate Conditions
What is la nina?
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200 Question Climate Conditions
The two major weather impacts of el nino and la
nina.
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200 Answer Climate Conditions
What are flooding and drought?
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300 Question Climate Conditions
The warming of surface water off the coast of
South America
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300 Answer Climate Conditions
What is el nino?
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400 Question Climate Conditions
Two ways the NOAA helps to predict el nino.
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400 Answer Climate Conditions
What are buoys and satellites?
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500 Question Climate Conditions
Explain how el nino and la nina impact the United
States
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500 Answer Climate Conditions
Flooding/rains/storms during el nino and
drought/dry conditions in la nina
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100 Question Weathering and Erosion
The difference between weathering and erosion
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100 Answer Weathering and Erosion
What is weathering breaks down materials of
Earths crust and Erosion moves the fragments away
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200 Question Weathering and Erosion
The four ways erosion occurs
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200 Answer Weathering and Erosion
What is wind, water, glaciers, gravity
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300 Question Weathering and Erosion
How the Grand Canyon was formed.
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300 Answer Weathering and Erosion
Water erosion by the Colorado River and other
side streams and tributaries
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400 Question Weathering and Erosion
The method of erosion that creates most changes
on Earth
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400 Answer Weathering and Erosion
What is water erosion
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500 Question Weathering and Erosion
Plants role in weathering and erosion
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500 Answer Weathering and Erosion
What is. plants are a type of weathering, but
prevent erosion
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100 Question Desertification
Areas of the world impacted by desertification
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100 Answer Desertification
What are Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern
Europe
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200 Question Desertification
The area of the United States most impacted by
desertification.
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200 Answer Desertification
What is the Great Plains?
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300 Question Desertification
4 impacts of desertification
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300 Answer Desertification
What are loss of land for grazing, loss of
farmland, increase in food prices, food shortages
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400 Question Desertification
The climate zone that worldwide desertification
usually occurs in.
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400 Answer Desertification
What is low?
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500 Question Desertification
4 human causes of desertification
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500 Answer Desertification

• Overgrazing, clearing of forests, farming,
  population growth

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100 Question HEI
The main reason the 3 Gorges dam is being built
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100 Answer HEI
What is to control flooding?
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200 Question HEI
Debt for Nature Swap.
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200 Answer HEI
What is a debt-reducing deal wherein an
organization agrees to pay off a certain amount
of government debt in return for government
protection a certain portion of the rain forest.
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300 Question HEI
4 reasons why deforestation is occurring
throughout the worlds rainforests.
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300 Answer HEI
Cattle ranching , clearing land for farming,
building roads, logging
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400 Question HEI
3 negative consequences of the 3 Gorges Dam
construction
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400 Answer HEI
What is human resettlement, flooding of cities,
destruction of natural habitats ?
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500 Question HEI
3 impacts of deforestation
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500 Answer HEI

• 1. Global warming due to higher carbon dioxide
  levels in the atmosphere
• 2. Changing weather patterns
• 3. Endangered plants and animals that may hold
  medical are lost

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100 Question MISC

• This physical feature hampered development of the
  United States.

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100 Answer MISC
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
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200 Question MISC
The strait of Gibraltar connects these two bodies
of water.
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200 Answer MISC
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic
Ocean?
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300 Question MISC
Explain how physical features impact human
settlement patterns.
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300 Answer MISC
What is humans settle near coastlines or large
bodies of water
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400 Question MISC
3 impacts of being a landlocked country
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400 Answer MISC
No ports-which makes it hard to trade. Cuts the
country off of sea resources Can impact climate
(remember continentality)
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500 Question MISC
This chokepoint is strategic for oil transport
out of Southwest Asia/Middle East.
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500 Answer MISC
Strait of Hormuz
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Final Jeopardy Category

• Physical Features

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Final Jeopardy Question

• Explain how mountains impact European culture.

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Final Jeopardy Answer
The mountains prevented the diffusion of culture
and languages. Many languages developed.