WGU C255 Intro to Geography, Geography c255, WGU Geography Updated Version 2023 2024 Q&A 0-2 Degrees latitude - Correct AnswerTropical
- themes of geography - Correct AnswerLocation, place, movement, region, human
environment interaction
20-35 Degrees latitude - Correct AnswerSubtropical
45-60 degrees latitude - Correct AnswerContinental
60 degrees and higher latitude - Correct AnswerTundra
Absolute location - Correct AnswerExact
acid deposition - Correct AnswerCommonly known as acid rain. Occurs when sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides are discharged into the atmosphere. Kills fish and plants and harms soil
adiabatic cooling - Correct AnswerTerm for the decrease in temperature that results from expansion of rising air
advection - Correct AnswerThe horizontal movements of air or substances by wind or ocean currents
Any Darya River - Correct AnswerIn Uzbekistan, flows into Arab Sea
Archive circle - Correct Answer66.5 N
area analysis - Correct AnswerAnalysis which integrates the geographic features of an area or a place. Focuses on regions.
arithmetic density (population density) - Correct AnswerThe number of people per unit of area
Balkanization - Correct AnswerThe breakup of a large political unit, Eastern Europe, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian
Balkanization along national lines has characterized this region - Correct AnswerEastern Europe
Barriers to migration - Correct AnswerPhysical, economic, financial, cultural, political
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Bedouin - Correct AnswerNomadic people of North Africa and Middle East
Berber culture - Correct AnswerNorth Africa
Berbers - Correct AnswerNorth African, Arabic speaking muslims
Biome - Correct AnswerA large grouping of ecosystems characterized by particular plant and animal types
Civil war divides by religious lines - Correct AnswerSub Saharan Africa
climate - Correct AnswerThe statistical summary of weather over time; includes both the average conditions and the extremes
concentration - Correct AnswerThe distribution of a phenomenon within a given area.Close proximity is concentrated, far apart is dispersed.
conformal map - Correct AnswerA map that distorts size but preserves shape
Contains an increasingly large share of the world population - Correct AnswerDeveloping nations
Contains tropical rain forests and one of the worlds most extensive fresh water basins - Correct AnswerLatin America
contiguous diffusion (contagious diffusion) - Correct AnswerDiffusion that occurs from one place to a neighboring place through direct contact
Continental climate - Correct Answer45-60
Crossing from one state to another - Correct AnswerFormal region
Crossing into the metropolitan Chicago area - Correct AnswerFunctional
Crude birth rate and crude death rate are high - Correct AnswerDeveloping countries
cultural landscape - Correct AnswerA landscape that reveals the many ways people modify their local environment
density - Correct AnswerThe frequency of occurrence of a phenomenon in relation to geographic area (usually a number per sq.km.)
dependency ratio - Correct AnswerThe ratio of a country's working-age population that must support those too young or too old to work
Developing Nations - Correct AnswerPanama, Hati, Senegal
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