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TOPIC QUIZ #2


II. THE GEOGRAPHIC GRID (and CONTOURS)

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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).
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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: __”The Law of Conservation of Mass
which states that matter can be changed from one form into another,
mixtures can be separated or made, and pure substances can be
decomposed, but the total amount of mass remains constant.”
_____________________________________
2. “Work” does what to energy according to the…
(a) …1st Energy Law?

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

(b) …2nd Energy Law?

When we use an energy source it is not destroyed but enters a more disordered state.
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):

Because conditions at Salton Sea were in many ways favorable for applic...


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