20 Questions

Here are 20 questions to help you as you complete your studying for the final exam.

1) What is natural vegetation?
2)The solid matter carried by a stream is called ____________
3) Landforms shaped by running water are called_____________
4)True or False the United States currently does not have any active volcanoes?
5)Seismic Sea Waves are also known as?
6) What affects the availability and distribution of ground water?
7) Can you describe the Rock Cycle?
8) Define the term Rock. What are the three major classes of Rock?
9)What is the Earth’s crust?
10)The layers of the earth’s interior include the _______, _______, ______ ______ _______ , and the _______ ______ _____.
11)What is an earthquake? Where do they occur?
12)The ___________, the outermost shell of the rigid, brittle rock, includes the crust and an upper layer of the mantle.
13) Where is the Sahara Desert located?
14)The two basic tectonic processes are _____________ and ______________.
15) Biogeography is the combination of ___________ and geography.
16) How does a foodweb work?
17) What is the scientific study of land forms?
18) What is soil? Why is it a valuable natural resource?
19) ___________ is the general term applied to the combined action of all processes that cause rock to disintegrate physically and decompose chemically because of exposure near the earth’s surface.
20)What are long, narrow bodies of flowing water occupying a trench-like depression, or channel, and moving to lower levels under the force of gravity?

Feel free to email me with any questions.

Chapters 8-10

I hope that you all benefited from our review last night. Here's the post of the vocab for the chapter 8-10. I will also email around a study guide with all terms tonight. All terms have been on the blog this is just giving you the entire list in one place.

I will also include the things you need to know for the 2 diagrams on the exam.

Thanks & Happy Studying!!

Chapter 8:

biogeography
food web
primary producers
photosynthesis
biomass
habitat
biodiversity

Chapter 9:

Natural Vegetation
Biome
Savanna Biome
Desert Biome

Chapter 10:

Soil
Parent Material
Soil Texture
Water Use

Monday May 4th: Class at 7pm

Class,

Tonight's class will be pushed back until 7pm. We will still have our review in class. An extra 30 minutes to study for the quiz!

Thanks,

T. Silwick

Africa Video Facts

Last class, we watched the Deserts of the worls Video that focused on African deserts, and specifically the Sahara. Here are a few notes from the movie to keep in mind for the map quiz and the final exam.

>The Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert is a great desert area, North Africa, the West portion of the broad belt of parched land that extends from the Atlantic Ocean eastward past the Red Sea to Iraq. The entire desert, the largest in the world, is about 1600 km wide and about 5000 km long from East to West.

The total domain of the Sahara Desert is more than 9,000,000 sq. km, more than 3,500,000 square miles. Of which some 200,000 square km. Some 80,000 square miles, consist of partially fertile oases.

>The Nile River
Unlike most rivers, the Nile is North flowing. The valley of the Nile River and the mountainous area of the Nubian Desert to the East of the Nile are geographically, part of the Sahara. However, the irrigation afforded by the Nile transforms the desert into fertile agricultural land throughout much of Egypt.

The Nile still supports much of the population living along its banks, with the Egyptians living in otherwise inhospitable regions of the Sahara. The river flooded every summer, depositing fertile silt on the plains. The flow of the river is disturbed at several points by cataracts, which are sections of faster-flowing water with many small islands, shallow water, and rocks, forming an obstacle to navigation by boats. The Sudd wetlands in Sudan an obstacle for navigation and flow of water.

>Importance of Ports

With Africa being such an expansive continent, one will notice an interesting trend in the shapes of the African countries. Many of them have a narrow band of land to enable them to have a seaport. This enables them to participate in international commerce without paying tariffs/ fees to other countries.

>Mt. Kilimanjaro

Due to Kilimanjaro's equatorial location and high elevation, almost every climate type on earth is represented, including a year-round snow-topped summit.

The summit of Kilimanjaro is covered by a GSM mobile phone network, and was previously the highest point in the world with mobile phone service.

Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising 15,100 ft from its base and approximately 16,700 ft from the plains near Moshi. This is the highest peak in Africa at 19,330 ft, providing a panoramic view of the surrounding area.

>Conflict in Africa

There are two main causes of the conflicts that arise on the African continent. One is due to the political boundaries of countries that we arbitrarily founded by outside parties. This has led to many cultures and tribes being poorly defined.

In addition, while the African continent is very resource rich, those resources are not equally distributed. The conflict in the DRC (formerly known as Zaire) has involved seven nations. There have been a number of complex reasons, including conflicts over basic resources such as water, access and control over rich minerals and other resources and various political agendas. This has been fueled and supported by various national and international corporations and other regimes which have an interest in the outcome of the conflict.

If you have any questions regarding these 5 topics, please email me at tsilwick@yahoo.com

Africa Quiz

Hi Class,

Sorry for the delay in getting this post up. Apparently blogger was updating the site on Monday night so I was unable to post anything.

Here are the countries to know for the map quiz on Monday May 4th.

1) Madagascar
2) Sudan
3) Egypt
4) Democratic Republic of Congo
5) Senegal
6) South Africa
7) Libya
8) Mali
9) Morocco
10) Somalia
11) Uganda
12) Tanzania
13) Kenya
14) Algeria
15) Ethiopia

In addition, there will be 5 2-point questions on the video from class and the powerpoint on the geography of Africa.
The Synopsis will go up tonight in addition, I will email out the presentation. The five questions will focus on:
1) Mt Kilmajaro: Highest Point in Africa
2) The Nile River
3) The Sahara Desert
4) Ports and water access on the African Continent
5) Conflict and its relation to countries/ natural resources.

Please email me with any questions.

TS

Review of Chapters 17 & 18

Here are the key terms from chapters 17 & 18. We will spend the majority of class discussing the geography of Africa and Deserts. If you miss class 4/27, be sure to check back on the blog for a synopsis of the video.

Key Terms:

Chapter 17

Plateau
Mesa
Sedimentary Dome
Monadnock

Chapter 18

Shoreline
Bay
Estuary
Progradation
Retrogradation
Delta
Coral Reef
Blowout
Sand Dune

For those that missed 4/20

Hi Class,

Here's the selected key terms from chapters 15 & 16..

Also, if you missed class last week and would like to make up the assignment, we completed exercise 15.3 on page 539 of the text. This exercise is worth 20pts toward your grade. Pleas turn in the assignment by Thursday April 30th. Thanks!

Ch 15:
infiltration
runoff
ground water
water table
stream
channel
discharge
drainage basin
watershed
flood
lake

Ch 16:
fluvial landforms
fluvial processes
stream erosion
stream transportation
graded stream
natural levee