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Mid unit test prep/geography - Coggle Diagram
Mid unit test prep/geography
Maps
Distortion, to change or adjust - Globe converted 2-D, Location, Navigation, Pleasant Experience
Biosphere
3 layers of earth occupied by living organisms
Lithosphere - outer crust of earth
Hydrosphere - 97% of water is salt water
Atmosphere - layer of gasses above earth - nitrogen and oxygen
Continental drift
Theory - supported by scientific evidence; explains phenomena is the natural world - molten/magma motion
Impacts tectonic plates → continents/land masses Pangea - All continents in one
Continent
Large mass of land mostly surrounded by water
Eurasia
19 century European cartographers made Europe own continent - they had colonial power
Afroeurasia
Eurasia and Africa is connected by Israel and Egypt
Man made canal between
Great arid zone
Arid land throughout Afroeurasia - Sahara, Arabian, and Gobi desert
Arid
Extremely dry - Semi arid- 10-20 inches of rainfall every year