STUDY GUIDE
EXAM 1
GEOGRAPHY LAB

ALL EXAM QUESTIONS COME FROM YOUR LAB ASSIGNMENTS. 

• Where are the frequency of thunderstorms the highest in the United States?
• What are the wind speeds of tropical depressions , tropical storms, and tropical cyclones?
• With regard to the Township and Range System, how many acres are in a section or a quarter section?
• Understand how sections are numbered in a township.
• Know how to calculate distance within a township as you travel from one section to another.
• Do baselines run horizontally or vertically?
• Would a bar scale be accurate at all latitudes on a Mercator projection?
• What are themes with regard to maps?
• Which map used in your GIS labs displayed true shape?  Which one displayed equal area?
• Define the term map projection.
• Why are flat maps distorted?
• Does a small scale map show a relatively large area or a small area?
• Understand the earth’s grid including where the major reference lines are located.
• Know how to do latitude and longitude problems (you will be asked to move around the grid finding locations).
• Is a meridian a great circle?
• Understand time zones and how to perform time zone problems.
• Understand the terms solstice and equinox, and the significance of the Tropic of Capricorn, the Tropic of Cancer, the Arctic Circle, and the Antarctic Circle. 
• Know how to do orographic uplift problems.
• What does adiabatic heating do to the relative humidity of a descending air parcel? 
• Understand the relationship between wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures with respect to relative  humidity.
• Do winds blow from high pressure to low pressure or vice versa?
• Understand the relationship between latitude and average annual temperature range.

BRING SCANTRON 882