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1.What is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)?
- •North Atlantic cold upwelling cycle
- •Decadal rhythm of Arctic sea ice
- •Seasonal reversal of Indian monsoons
- •Pacific warming-cooling cycle affecting weather
2.What is paleogeography?
- •Mapping of prehistoric settlements
- •Study of fossil river networks
- •Reconstruction of ancient Earth geography
- •Study of ancient mapmaking methods
3.What is the significance of the Humboldt Current for South American geography?
- •Amazon-fed freshwater current
- •Cold current driving aridity and fisheries
- •Flood trigger for the Atacama
- •Warm drift heating the far south
4.What is geographic information that can be tagged with coordinates called?
- •A cartographic projection
- •Pure topographic data
- •A digital terrain model
- •Geospatially referenced data
5.What is an exclave?
- •A territory that belongs to no country
- •A portion of a country geographically separated from the main part by another country's territory
- •An island that is part of a continental country
- •A disputed border region between two countries
6.What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
- •Mountain ranges that divide the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- •Latitudinal lines at 23.5°N and 23.5°S marking the Sun's maximum declination
- •Ocean currents circulating in opposite directions
- •Time zones used for international navigation
7.What causes the phenomenon known as 'midnight sun'?
- •A rare alignment of the Moon and Sun
- •Volcanic activity illuminating the night sky
- •Reflection of sunlight off polar ice caps
- •Earth's axial tilt causing 24-hour daylight at high latitudes during summer
8.What is the Continental Divide of the Americas?
- •The geological fault line running through Central America
- •A climate zone dividing tropical and temperate Americas
- •The border between North and South America
- •A hydrological line separating watersheds draining to the Pacific from those draining to the Atlantic
9.What is an atoll?
- •Ring reef enclosing a lagoon
- •Isolated plateau on the seafloor
- •Submarine canyon cut by turbidity
- •Reef fringing a continent
10.What is the Circum-Pacific Belt more commonly known as?
- •A tectonic island arc
- •The broader Pacific Rim
- •The Pacific Ring of Fire
- •A Pacific rift corridor