PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY (GEOG 120) TIM CLIFFE / Grossmont College NAME: ______________________________________________ SEC # _____________ TOPIC QUIZ #2 II. THE GEOGRAPHIC GRID 1. (and CONTOURS) Name the law discovered by Antione Lavoisier that created modern chemistry: _______________________________________ 2. “Work” does what to energy according to the… (a) …1st Energy Law? (b) …2nd Energy Law? 3. Describe how Mass Conservation can be used by the USGS to indirectly measure the amount of water lost by the Salton Sea through evaporation (include a brief explanation of how to measure both Inputs and ∆Storage, and thus how to compute Outputs): 4. Ocean water temperatures off CA are _____________ than off the East Coast in summer. 5. Name the Spherical Grid System that uses meridians and parallels to reference the location of phenomena such as hurricanes: ___________________________________________ 6. What is the name for the shortest distance between two points on a flat piece-of-paper (or on any two-dimensional surface)? _______________________________________________________________ 7. An arc along what route is the shortest distance between any two cities on Earth’s nearlyspherical surface (e.g., between LA and London)? _____________________________________________________ 8. Consider a missile silo in North Dakota vs. a Russian missile silo near Moscow. Of the following, circle all that sit directly in-between these two missile silos: Canada Europe The Atlantic The Arctic 9. (a) In what way is the Equator different from all the other Parallels? (b) So…the Equator gets uniquely used in the Latitude System in what way? 10. How far north or south can one go in the Latitude System? ________________________________ 11. San Diego is located at what Latitude, approximately? ________________________________ 12. How far east or west can one go in the Longitude System? ________________________________ 13. Lines-of-Longitude do what poleward? ________________________________ 14. “Start at the Equator at the Prime Meridian…Go a quarter-of-the-way around the Earth to the West…Then go half-way north toward the North Pole.” Where are you now (i.e., what’s your Latitude/Longitude)? _______________________________ 15) On the contour map below (in feet): (a) Give the "Contour Interval" = _____________ (b) Give the elevation at F: (c) _____ < F < ______ If "F" were at 105' elevation, then what's missing from the map? _____________________ (d) "E" is on a slope that is a(n) ________-facing slope. (e) Describe the route from "E"… …to X: __________________________________________ …to Y: __________________________________________ …to Z: _________________________________________ …to G: __________________________________________ (f) Consider a ball on a slope: If you let go, it rolls down, in that-direction-that-is… what? _________________ So, on a topo map, how do you know which direction is steepest… …that direction that goes how relative to the contour lines? Parallel / Perpendicular (g) So, if you let go of a ball at "E," then it will roll downhill to the beach at: G / X / Y / Z (h) A ball at "P" would roll to Harbor ____, while a ball at "Q" would roll to Harbor ____. Which ball rolls faster, P or Q? How do you know? _________________________________ Z Y X E P Q F G 16) Match the following "topographic profiles" (on the right) to the correct "topographic map" (on the left). PLACENAMES FOR MAP QUIZ #2 (Africa and Europe) Africa: Cape of Good Hope Mediterranean Sea Tunisia Cyprus Libya Morocco Algeria Mauritania Mali Niger Chad Sudan Egypt Sinai Peninsula Nigeria Liberia East African Rift Zone Djibouti Red Sea Ethiopia Eritrea Somalia Kenya Tanzania Mt. Kilimanjaro Lake Victoria Nile River Congo River Niger River Sahara Desert Sahel Semidesert Congo (Zaire) Angola Zambia Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) Mozambique South Africa Kalahari Desert Cape Town Ancient “Timbuktu” is here on the Niger River Don’t confuse with “Nigeria” Most-populous country in Africa; major oil producer Formed by freed slaves from the US Spreading has produced Lakes Malawi, Tanganyika, Turkana, up to… …“Afar Triangle,” which is tectonically the junction of 3 spreading zones Continuation of E Africa spreading zone; Arabia has rifted off Africa Poverty while ½ its budget since ’98 = senseless border fight w/Ethiopia Strategic base for militants (violent warlords, long coast near Yemen, etc.) Once, African symbol of democracy; 90’s failure (e.g., child death rise) W Tanz and Kenya = famous wildlife parks (Serengeti, Masi Mara, etc.) A water-filled “caldera” in the E Af Rift Zone; like Crater Lake NP in US World’s longest river; flows into the Med Sea, producing the “Nile Delta” By far the largest desert on Earth; bigger than the contiguous US! Nat’lly unreliable rains + pop growth = desertification/famine (1960’s on) Ethnic war since 1990’s: 4 million dead (the current “African Holocaust”) No oil, but major gold and diamond producer; most-developed AF nation Johannesburg Madagascar Canary Islands Azores Islands These Portuguese Islands may be “3-hole punched” on your “Africa” map Strait of Gibraltar Atlas Mountains Casablanca Tripoli Cairo Timbuktu Europe: Portugal Spain France Germany Belgium Netherlands Denmark England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Norway Sweden Finland Switzerland Italy Greece Austria Hungary Czech Republic Slovakia Poland Romania Bulgaria Albania Macedonia Yugoslavia Bosnia (B-Herzegovina) Croatia Slovenia Island of “Great Britain” includes England, Scotland, and Wales; add… …to this N Ireland, and you’ve got the “United Kingdom (UK)” North Sea oil (shared with Norway) allows Scottish drive for autonomy Protestant majority favors British rule (since 1921); Catholic IRA does not A nation separate from N Ireland (though both are on the same island) Birthplace of modern meteorology (Bjerknes’ “Polar Front Theory” 1919) Non-Lutheran German-speakers; traditionally Catholic Was the most-backward country behind the Soviet-era “Iron Curtain” The former, Soviet-era “Yugoslavia” has split into: (1) Yugoslavia… …which is majority Serbian, (2) Bosnia, (3) Croatia, (4) Slovenia, and… …(5) Macedonia Rome London Paris Berlin Vienna Black Sea Aegean Sea Adriatic Sea Baltic Sea North Sea Barents Sea Rhine River Rhone River Danube River Alps Mountains Pyrenees Mountains Crete Sicily Use the “EURASIA” Map for the “FORMER-SOVIET REPUBLICS” in Europe: Russia Ukraine Belarus Estonia Latvia Lithuania Moscow St Petersburg Black Sea Volga River Urals Mountains Novaya Zemlya About the size of US and Canada combined; extends into Asia (to Pacific) The “Ukrainian Breadbasket” of the former-Soviet Union “White Russia;” former-Soviet Republic The following 3 former-Soviet “Baltic States” are alphabetical N to S Called “Leningrad” under the Soviets Make sure you can locate this on either map Historic “cradle” of Russia; its basin contains ½ of Russia’s population Divides the Eurasian Continent into Europe vs. Asia Primary Soviet nuclear test area, with little attention to waste disposal 
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