GEOG 2RU3 Final: 2RU3 EXAM.pdf
16 May 2015
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Spatial processes how things got to be the way they are. Spatial understanding significance or consequences or meaning of spatial variation/patterns. Utilizes both physical & human understandings of the world. Functional (nodal) defining characteristic then diminishes outwards. Formal (uniform) shares a distinctive characteristic (predominant, not universal) Based on surface landform features (geomorphology) and underlying rock. 4 major features: eastern coastal plateau, eastern mountains, central. 2 prongs: coast ranges/sierra nevada/cascades & rockies. Physical regions: gulf-atlantic (southeastern) coastal plain, flat terrain, gentle slope under atlantic ocean as continental shelf, coastline bays, swamps, lagoons, bayous, sand-bar islands, new england to florida to texas, appalachian uplands & piedmont: Factors affecting: latitude seasons, proximity to large bodies of water, continentality, maritime/ocean currents, precipitation, topography (i. e. elevation), variations in solar energy, higher latitudes, seasonality is more pronounced (differences between, higher elevations are cooler than lower, orographic precipitation. Greatest variation: east = temperature; west = precipitation.
