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Review Sheet—Physical Geography
Use your textbook or class notes to identify any vocabulary words you do not
remember.
Alluvial Soil
External Forces
Glaciation
Erosion
Sedimentation (soil building)
Weather
Climate
Temperature
Elevation/altitude
Latitude
Humidity
Precipitation
Physical Barriers
Arid
Semiarid
Tropical
Arctic
Mediterranean
Grassland/Savannah
GDP per capita
Infant Mortality Rate
Life Expectancy
Irrigation (drip irrigation)
Desalinization
Aquaculture
Use your notes or the textbook to answer the following questions.
1. Is weathering an internal or an external process? Explain.
2. How does erosion affect the environment in a region?
3. How do soil-building processes, such as sedimentation, affect the environment in
a region?
4. How has glaciation affected the environment in some regions? Identify a region
that has been effected by glaciation.
5. How does latitude affect climate?
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6. How does altitude affect climate and temperature?
7. How do physical barriers affect precipitation on a continent? Use the term rain
shadow in your answer.
8. In the climograph above, which month has the most rainfall?
9. In the climograph above, describe the changes in temperature that this location
sees throughout the year.
10. Based on the climograph, what climate region is Iquitos in?
11. What is the difference between climate and weather?
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12. What are the key characteristics of a tropical climate?
13. What are the key characteristics of a tropical wet and dry climate?
14. What are the key characteristics of an arid (desert) climate?
15. What are the key characteristics of a Mediterranean climate?
16. Where is the Mediterranean Sea?
17. What are renewable resources?
18. What are non-renewable resources?
19. What is global warming?
20. Identify two examples of human environment interaction used in arid or semiarid
climates.
a.
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b.
21. What is a dam? What are dams used for?
22. Give at least three examples of green energy:
a.
b.
c.
23. What is desertification, and how is it affecting the African Sahel?
24.
Region
The United States
Western Europe
Sub-Saharan
Africa
East Asia
Southwest Asia
(Middle East)
Main energy source(s)
Region for this type of
energy usage
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25. Complete the following table on the benefits and harms of different energy
sources.
Nonrenewable Pros
Cons
Sources
Renewable
Energy
Sources
Pros
Cons
26. What was the main energy source in the United States in the 19th century? How
has usage of this energy source changed in the last 150 years?
27. What are the main global energy sources?