The deadline for this assignment is May 13, 2024. Nothing will be accepted after that date. If you intend to do the entire assignment then submit all the assignments at once. Of course, you may submit this work before May 13.
It is important that you remember that each assignment relies on the others. In order for assignment #4 to be accepted you had to have completed Assignment #3. And in order for Assignment #3 to be accepted you had to have completed Assignment #2. And for Assignment #2 to be accepted, you had to have completed Assignment #1.
UPDATE: This remediation assignment is lengthy however it is, for the most part, the work we've covered for this class. We've answered most of these questions and commands during the course of world geography. The linked resources will insure that you can access the correct answers/ responses. Additionally, this assignment can be easily completed before the due date. Among the ways to do this is in pieces each day: complete 4 to 5 vocabulary words, view 1 video and answer its questions, answer 2 power point questions, and answer 2 to 3 map assignment questions. Doing this will allow you to complete this in its entirety a few days before the deadline. It is recommended that after you complete an entire assignment, make a copy and store it. If you are able to scan the assignment, then sending that scanned copy to your email would be a good place for storage. Be sure to label that email as something you will remember. These things you would do just in case you lose the original copies.
ASSIGNMENT #1: VOCABULARY
Define each word in your own handwriting. Each definition must be numbered. This must be written neatly otherwise points will be taken off. Make certain that each definition relates to something in geography. For example, the term "cape" can either be an article of clothing or a type of landform. The latter description is the one to use.
This assignment is worth one non-test grade and the increase of a failing non-test grade up to 70.
1) active volcano
2) alluvial
3) alluvial plain
4) alluvium
5) alluvial soil
6) altitude
7) Antarctic
8) aquifer
9) archipelago
10) atlas
11) atoll
12) bay
13) beach
14) bight
15) bog
16) burgh
17) butte
18) canal
19) canyon
20) cape
21) cardinal directions
22) cartography
23) cave
24) cavern
25) cay
26) channel
27) city-state
28) cliff
29) coast
30) compass
31) coniferous
32) continent
33) continental shelf
34) cordillera
35) country
36) cove
37) crater
38) creek
39) dam
40) deciduous
41) delta
42) dike
43) dormant volcano
44) drainage basin
45) dune
46) earthquake
47) Eastern Hemisphere
48) elevation
49) enclave
50) Equator
51) estuary
52) extinct volcano
53) fallow
54) fjord
55) floodplain
56) foothills
57) forest
58) geography
59) glaciation
60) glacier
61) glen
62) gulch
63) gulf
64) gully
65) hedgerow
66) hemisphere
67) highland
68) hill
69) hinterland
70) hydrosphere
71) ice cap
72) iceberg
73) igneous rock
74) island
75) islet
76) isthmus
77) jungle
78) key
79) knoll
80) lagoon
81) lake
82) land bridge
83) landform
84) landmass
85) latitude
86) lava
87) leeward
88) legend
89) lithosphere
90) longitude
91) lowland
92) magma
93) mainland
94) mantle
95) map
96) map projection
97) marsh
98) Mediterranean climate
99) mesa
100) mountain
101) mountain range
102) nation
103) Northern Hemisphere
104) oasis
105) ocean floor
106) peninsula
107) physical geography
108) piedmont
109) plate tectonics
110) plateau
111) polar region
112) pond
113) prairie
114) prevailing wind
115) province
116) rain shadow
117) reef
118) rift valley
119) river
120) riverine
121) rural
122) scale
123) sea
124) sea level
125) taiga
126) terrain
127) territory
128) Tropic of Cancer
129) Tropic of Capricorn
130) tropics
131) tundra
132) orogeny
133) upland
134) urban
135) strait
136) valley
137) volcano
138) water table
139) watershed
140) Western Hemisphere
141) windward
142) Europe
143) Eurasia
144) Africa
145) Asia
146) North America
147) South America
148) Central America
149) Australia
150) Oceania
151) Scandinavia
152) Antarctic Circle
153) Arctic Circle
154) Indochina
ASSIGNMENT #2: VIDEOS
Use the videos to answer each of the questions in your own handwriting. Do not use a search engine to find answers (or any other form of plagiarism) or the entire assignment will not count. Be certain to write neatly otherwise points will be taken off.
This assignment is worth one non-test grade, any non-test grade raised up to 100, and any test grade raised up to 80.
1) What continent is the United States located on?
2) What benefits does the Mississippi River Basin provide to the United States?
3) What benefits do the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans provide to the United States?
4) What continent is the United Kingdom part of?
5) How do the United Kingdom's rugged coastline and it being surrounded by water benefit that country?
6) What makes it difficult for London to completely control the whole of the United Kingdom?
7) What on which continents is Russia located?
8) What weakness or problem doe the North European Plain present to Russia?
9) On which continent is Canada located?
10) When did Canada become and independent country?
11) Why does the majority of Canada's population live in its southern region?
12) Which continent is Japan part of?
13) Name Japan's four main islands.
14) What is Japan's primary geographic challenge?
15) On what continent is Belarus located?
16) What is the main historic route for invasion into Russia?
17) Define "buffer state".
18) Who is the current president of Belarus and when did he become president?
19) On which continent is China located?
20) Why is it important for China to control its "buffer zones"?
21) Define "shipping lane", and "maritime".
22) Why did Australia form alliances with the maritime powers of the United Kingdom and the United States?
23) On which continent is Venezuela located?
24) When did Venezuela become an independent country?
25) What natural resource is of greatest importance to Venezuela's economy?
26) On which continent is Turkey located?
27) Define "infrastructure".
28) Name the landform that most of Turkey sits on.
29) How has Turkey's rugged geography and mountainous terrain benefitted Turkey?
30) What disadvantage does Turkey's rugged geography and mountainous terrain create for that country?
31) On which continent is Spain located?
32) Name the natural boundary that separates Spain from France.
33) How has Spain's mountainous terrain been a hinderance to it?
34) On which continent is Ukraine located?
35) Describe the location of Ukraine's economically productive regions.
36) On which continent is Iran located?
37) What natural resource is important to Iran's economy?
38) On which continent is Saudi Arabia located?
39) What type of landform does Saudi Arabia sit on and what is its name?
40) What is the main export (and source of wealth) for Saudi Arabia?
41) Why does Saudi Arabia rely on a major foreign power?
42) On which continent is Italy located?
43) Define "Levant" and identify the countries that are currently in that location.
44) Why did Italian reunification occur late?
45) On which continent is India located?
46) What has made it possible for India to be free of foreign interference for much of its history?
47) What is the Ganges River Basin?
48) On which continent is Germany located?
49) When did Germany become unified?
50) When did Germany become divided into East and West Germany?
51) When did East and West Germany become unified as Germany?
52) On which continent is Oman located?
53) On what type of landform is Oman located? What is the name of that landform?
54) What separates Oman's capital from the rest of the country?
55) What natural resource does Oman's economy depend on?
56) Name the landform that places the Strait of Hormuz in Oman's territorial waters.
57) What naval power does Oman depend on today to protect its sovereignty?
58) On which continent is Thailand located?
59) What is the name of Thailand's major food producing region?
60) On which continent is Vietnam located?
61) What are the two main rivers of Vietnam's population cores?
62) Name the two main cities of Vietnam's population cores.
63) On which continent is Colombia located?
64) Name the countries that border Colombia.
65) What was the name of the country/ territory that was divided to form Colombia?
66) Which continent is Indonesia part of?
67) Name the two oceans that border the Indonesian island chain/ archipelago.
68) Name Indonesia's main island.
69) Name Indonesia's agricultural heartland.
70) What physical feature is the core of Indonesia. This physical feature allows access to the major Indonesia's major islands.
71) On which continent is Nepal located?
72) Name the rivers that irrigate Nepal's agricultural region.
73) Name the region of China that borders Nepal.
74) What are Nepal's major tourist attractions?
75) On which continent is Azerbaijan located?
76) Name the three large powers (countries) that border Azerbaijan.
77) What country is the historic rival of Azerbaijan?
78) From where does Azerbaijan get its energy resources?
79) On which continent is Mexico located?
80) Name the countries/ foreign powers that used the port city of Veracruz as a means of conquering Mexico.
81) What are to two main mountain ranges of Mexico?
ASSIGNMENT #3: POWER POINTS
Use the power points to answer the questions in your own handwriting. Write neatly otherwise points will be taken off. Any form of plagiarism used to complete this assignment disqualifies the entire assignment.
This Assignment is worth two test grades raised up to 85.
Use the first twelve slides to answer the following questions:
1) Which of the following coordinate sets is likely to have the coldest climate of the five?
62N, 114W; 38N, 13E; 35S, 56W; 4S, 15E; 44N, 79W
2) Which of the above coordinate sets is likely to have the coldest climate of the five?
3) Although Mt. Kilimanjaro is located only three degrees south of the Equator, its peak is covered in snow. How is this possible?
4) While Long Island gets snow less often than most places in New York State, many snowfalls there are more than just a dusting. For eight days a year on average, the fresh snow on Long Island amounts to at least an inch. Snowstorms of over five inches a day normally occur just a once or twice a year. Use the following map of New York State to identify which of the climate affecting factors is at work. List that factor when you have identified it.
5) The Kuroshio Current has an important warming effect upon the south and southeast coastal regions of Japan as far north as Tokyo. Which of the climate affecting factors apply to this phenomena?
6) Identify which climate affecting factor applies to the following passage: "Westerly winds from the Atlantic Ocean carry moisture into the region, but the mountains act as a weather barrier between the coastal grasslands and wetlands and the Sahara Desert. The Atlas Range causes a rain shadow effect, preventing the areas beyond the mountains from receiving much rainfall."
7) Name the three types of tectonic plate boundaries and how each one moves.
8) Using the tectonic plate map contained in the power point, identify the tectonic plates that formed the Andes Mountains and describe the type of boundary those plates share.
9) Using the tectonic plate map contained in the power point, identify the tectonic plates that are creating the rift/ split in Iceland and the type of boundary those plates share.
10) Using the tectonic plate map contained in the power point, identify the tectonic plates that formed the Himalayas and describe the type of boundaries those plates share.
11) What type of tectonic plate boundary is the cause of most earthquakes in California?
21) Click on each of the Baltic States (Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia). Use each of the resulting map enlargements and list the bodies of water that border these three countries.
22) Look up the Vatican city (on the internet). Give a brief description of it.
23) List all the countries that border the Black Sea.
26) Aside from the Pacific Ocean, list all the bodies of water that border Asia's eastern coast.
27) Name the four main islands of Indonesia.
28) You will need to click on Italy, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and Iran to answer the following question: A that leaves Italy en route to Kuwait City takes the Suez Canal get there. List all the bodies of water that boat will encounter in the order they are encountered.
A - Tropical: Hot temperatures all year. This type of climate has every month of the year with an average temperature of (64.4 °F) or higher, with significant precipitation.
B - Dry: This type of climate has little precipitation.
C - Temperate: Temperate climates are those without extremes of temperature and precipitation (rain and snow). There are four distinct seasons. This type of climate has the coldest month averaging between 0 °C (32 °F) and 18 °C (64.4 °F) and at least one month averaging above 10 °C (50 °F).
D - Continental: Similar to temperate climates (four distinct seasons); located in latitudes higher than temperate climates. Summers are shorter and milder than those of temperate climates. Winters are longer and colder than those of temperate climates.
E – Polar: warmest temperature of any month being below 10 °C (50 °F). Polar climates are further divided into two types, tundra climates and icecap climates.
Second letter refers to amount of precipitation
W - desert: very dry, little precipitation
S - steppe: semi-arid, light rainfall
f - rainforest: high precipitation
s – savanna, dry summer
w – savanna, dry winter
m - monsoon
Third letter refers to temperature
h - hot
k - cold
a - hot summers
b- warm summers
c - cold summers
d – very cold winter
Answer the following questions in your own handwriting and submit on Monday:
1) Using the Koppen climate map and the political map, identify five European countries located in Europe that have a continental climate type (D-Type of climate).
2) Using the physical map and the climate map, explain why an polar climate type (E-type) is present in Northern Italy and Bulgaria even though both contries are far from the polar regions of Earth.
3) What is the climate type present in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The climate type is the first letter in the Koppen letter sets.
You may need to use this Koppen climate reference guide along with the map links to answer the questions below:
Meaning of Koppen
Classification Letters
The first letter is the
climate type
A - Tropical: Hot temperatures all year. This type of climate
has every month of the year with an average temperature of (64.4 °F) or higher,
with significant precipitation.
B - Dry: This type of climate has little precipitation.
C - Temperate: Temperate climates are those without extremes
of temperature and precipitation (rain and snow). There are four distinct
seasons. This type of climate has the coldest month averaging between 0 °C (32
°F) and 18 °C (64.4 °F) and at least one month averaging above 10 °C (50 °F).
D - Continental: Similar to temperate climates (four distinct
seasons); located in latitudes higher than temperate climates. Summers are
shorter and milder than those of temperate climates. Winters are longer and
colder than those of temperate climates.
E – Polar: warmest temperature of any month being below 10 °C
(50 °F). Polar climates are further divided into two types, tundra climates and
icecap climates.
Second letter refers to
amount of precipitation
W - desert:very dry,
little precipitation
S - steppe: semi-arid, light rainfall
f - rainforest: high precipitation
s – savanna, dry summer
w – savanna, dry winter
m - monsoon
Third letter refers to
temperature
h - hot
k - cold
a - hot summers
b- warm summers
c - cold summers
d – very cold winter
Answer the following questions in your own handwriting and submit on Monday:
1) Using the Koppen
climate map and the political map, identify five European countries located in
Europe that have a continental climate type (D-Type of climate).
2) Using the physical
map and the climate map, explain why an polar climate type (E-type) is present
in Northern Italy and Bulgaria even though both contries are far from the polar
regions of Earth.
3) What is the climate
type present in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The climate type is the first
letter in the Koppen letter sets.
Tips for answering the coordinate (latitude, longitude) questions without a map:
1) In the western hemisphere, the higher the number of degrees in longitude you have moved, the further west you are from the Prime Meridian.
2) In the eastern hemisphere, the higher the number of degrees in longitude you have moved, the further east you are from the Prime Meridian.
3) In the northern hemisphere, the higher the number of degrees in latitude have moved, the further north you are from the Equator.
4) In the southern hemisphere, the higher the number of degrees in latitude you have moved, the further south you have moved from the Equator.
These tips, along with a basic knowledge of where countries, landforms, and climate types are located will help you to answer coordinate questions without the help of a map.
EXAMPLE:
Assuming all the following coordinate sets to be located in Europe, which is closest to the Mediterranean Sea?
a) 38N, 13E b) 53N, 13E c) 53N, 6W d) 60N, 18E
The answer is "a". Of all the coordinate sets listed, 38N is the furthest south and since the Mediterranean Sea is south of Europe (in between the coasts of Southern Europe and North Africa), it is closest to the Mediterranean Sea.
If the above question asked with coordinate set was closest to the Arctic Ocean, a body of water bordering the coasts of Europe's northernmost countries then the answer would be "d" since 60N is furthest north.
Basic Facts About Europe Which Will Help You:
1) All countries and landforms in Europe are located in the Northern Hemisphere. There will be no coordinate sets (latitude, longitude) in which the latitude is listed as "S" (south). If there is such a coordinate set than it is not located in Europe.
1) How do wind and ocean currents
affect temperature?
- Wind currents distribute the sun’s heat
throughout the Earth.
2) What is the cause of the
Coriolis Effect?
- The cause of the Coriolis Effect, a
bending of winds in different directions in northern and southern hemispheres,
is the rotation of Earth.
3) In addition to affecting
temperature, what other feature of climate is affected by ocean currents?
- Ocean currents can affect
precipitation.These currents can chill
the air and prevent the moisture in warm air from falling to Earth.
4) List the three main climate
zones on Earth and their MAIN characteristic in the following way: name of
climate zone: main characteristic
- low/ tropical: hot all year long; high/
polar: cold all year long; middle/ temperate: varying climates – four distinct
seasons
5) How is it possible for a
mountainous region in the tropical climate zone to have temperatures similar to
a high or polar zone?
- A mountainous region in the tropics can
have a polar type of climate due to its high elevation. Elevation rises,
temperature decreases.
6) Use your electronic device or
laptop to define the term "rain shadow".
- A rain shadow is a patch of land that
has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all
plant-growing, rainy weather. On one side of the mountain, wet weather systems
drop rain and snow.
7) Of the four factors
(categories) that affect climate, which category does a "rain shadow"
fall into?
- Because a rain shadow is causedby a mountain range, it is in the category of
a landform’s affect on climate.
grid - a network of lines that cross each other to form a series of
squares or rectangles.
2) What are the names given to the
lines that form the imaginary grid used to identify exact and approximate
locations on earth?
3) What is another term used for
lines of latitude?
4) In which direction do lines of
latitude go?
5) What are the number of degrees for
the Equator?
5a) What subdivisions of Earth are created by the Equator?
6) What are the number of degrees for
the Tropic of Cancer?
6a) Why is the Tropic of Cancer (23.5N) labeled with the letter N?
7) What are the number of degrees for
the Tropic of Capricorn?
7a) Why is the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5S) labeled with the letter S?
8) What is the name of the climate
region that lies in between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
9) What are the number of degrees for
the Arctic Circle?
9a) Why is the Arctic Circle (66.5N) labeled with the letter N?
10) What are the number of degrees
for the Antarctic Circle?
10a) Why is the Antarctic Circle (66.5S) labeled with the letter S?
11) Describe the type of climate that
lies in between the Tropics and the Antarctic/ Arctic circles.
12) What is the term given to the
type of climate that lies north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic
Circle?
- A polar climate consisting of cool summers and very cold winters,
which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a permanent or semi-permanent
layer of ice.
13) What is another name for lines of
longitude?
14) How is the spacing between lines
of longitude different from lines of latitude?
14a) Where do lines of longitude meet?
15) What subdivisions of Earth are
created by the Prime Meridian (0⁰ Longitude)?
