Crescent Moon Lake Oasis Case Study Answers
Study Questions
What place is on the cover of our book and why did the authors choose it? [Read Chapter 1 to find out] Crescent Moon Lake oasis, a place of appararent isolation in the heart of the Gobi Desert in China. Its to get the reader to ask the obvious and no-so-obvious quesitons about why places like the oasis are where they are and what they mean to us both hitorically and today.
What are the 4 traditions of Geography? Spatial Tradition, Area Studies Tradition, The Man-Land Tradition, The Earth Science Tradition
What are analytical tools and concepts do geographers use? Cartogography and counter mapping. Uncover patterns, unique characteristics, and global interdependencies between places
*Review the main points of the Linton …show more content…
diffusion- The spread of ideas, disease, technology, etc. among places. assimilation- process by which people of different cultural backgrounds who occupy a commmon territory achieve sufficient cultural soldarity to sustain a national existence. commodity chains- networks of labor and production processes that originate in the extraction or production of raw materials. The end result is the delivery and consumption of a finished commodity.
Define the 3 atmospheric lifting mechanisms.
List at least one example of each one, describing a location where you find this lifting mechanism at work. For example, what atmospheric lifting mechanism is responsible for the ITCZ? 1) Convergent Lifting-Air flows toward an area of low pressure.Warm air converges and is lifted, cools & condenses, producing clouds and heavy precipitation.(ITCZ) ( 2) Orographic Lifting-Air rises upslope. Air cools, condenses, forms clouds and releases precipitation. (3)Convectional Lifting-Maritime air mass heated by passing over
What place is on the cover of our book and why did the authors choose it? [Read Chapter 1 to find out] Crescent Moon Lake oasis, a place of appararent isolation in the heart of the Gobi Desert in China. Its to get the reader to ask the obvious and no-so-obvious quesitons about why places like the oasis are where they are and what they mean to us both hitorically and today.
What are the 4 traditions of Geography? Spatial Tradition, Area Studies Tradition, The Man-Land Tradition, The Earth Science Tradition
What are analytical tools and concepts do geographers use? Cartogography and counter mapping. Uncover patterns, unique characteristics, and global interdependencies between places
*Review the main points of the Linton …show more content…
diffusion- The spread of ideas, disease, technology, etc. among places. assimilation- process by which people of different cultural backgrounds who occupy a commmon territory achieve sufficient cultural soldarity to sustain a national existence. commodity chains- networks of labor and production processes that originate in the extraction or production of raw materials. The end result is the delivery and consumption of a finished commodity.
Define the 3 atmospheric lifting mechanisms.
List at least one example of each one, describing a location where you find this lifting mechanism at work. For example, what atmospheric lifting mechanism is responsible for the ITCZ? 1) Convergent Lifting-Air flows toward an area of low pressure.Warm air converges and is lifted, cools & condenses, producing clouds and heavy precipitation.(ITCZ) ( 2) Orographic Lifting-Air rises upslope. Air cools, condenses, forms clouds and releases precipitation. (3)Convectional Lifting-Maritime air mass heated by passing over