GHY 1012- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)

• School: App State
• Department: Geography
• Course: GHY-1012
• Professor: Derek Joseph Martin

Document Summary

Intro: geography, (cid:862)geo(cid:863) earth, (cid:862)graphei(cid:374)(cid:863) to (cid:449)rite, spatial science approach not by topical area, systems concept, system equilibrium, steady state, dynamic majority of what we discuss. Ionosphere: 480 km to about 50 km, absorbs high energy incoming rays, ozonosphere, 50 km to about 18 km, contains the ozone layer, absorbs uv radiation, seriously damaged by pollution. 9/7/17: atmospheric circulation patterns, the northern and southern hemisphere both contain four primary pressure areas, form latitudinal bands, 1. Iceland, greenland, and the vikings: little ice age, (cid:1005)(cid:1008)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) i(cid:374)to the earl(cid:455) (cid:1005)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, mostly affected the northern hemisphere. Iceland, greenland, and the vikings again: how do we know what the temperature was 100,000 years ago, method de(cid:448)eloped i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1007)(cid:1004)"s (cid:271)(cid:455) harold ure(cid:455) a(cid:374)d cesare e(cid:373)ilia(cid:374)i, awarded nobel price. Isotope ratios of ocean water (ratio of light water to heavy water) change with temperature in a very predictable way.