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What are the five themes of geography |
Location, place, human environmental interactions, movement, region |
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What are the two types of geography |
Physical and human |
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What are the physical types of geography |
Topography Climate Flora and fauna Soil |
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What are the human types of geography |
Culture Population Economic Political Urban Agriculture |
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What is geography |
The study of where things are found on Earth's surface and the reasons for their location |
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What are the two questions that are asked by geographers |
Where are people and activities found Why are they found in these places |
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What is a map |
A 2d or flat scale model of the Earth's surface or portion of the Earth |
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What is cartography |
The science and practice of mapmaking |
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What two purposes can a map serve as |
Reference tool Communication tool |
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What were early maps used for |
Reference tool |
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What is a reference tool map |
How to get from one place to another showing limits of knowledge |
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What is a map scale |
level of detail, amount of area depend on map scale |
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What is a scale |
Relationship of a future sized on a map to annual size on Earth |
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What are the three ways a map scale is written |
Ratio or fraction, Written scale Graphic scale |
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Small scale map shows what |
Large area of Earth with less detail |
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What does a large map scale show |
A small area of Earth with lots of detail |
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What is projection |
Scientific method of depicting round surface onto flat map |
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How is the Earth's shape distorted during projection |
Shape, distance, relative size and direction |
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What is a geographic grid |
System of imaginary arcs drawn on Earth |
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Meridian's |
Longitude, prime meridian to international date line |
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Parallels |
Latitude, equator to the poles |
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How are points communicated by |
Latitude and longitude |
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What is absolute location |
An exact location, defined by longitude and latitude |
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Relative location |
Relation to other features on Earth |
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How many time zones are there on Earth |
24 |
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How many degrees longitude are between the time zones |
15 degrees |
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What is the prime meridian |
Located at 0 degrees longitude is the basis for the time system |
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What is the time system called and why |
GMT, because it runs through Greenwich |
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What is an isoline map |
Uses lines of equal value to represent data |
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What is a choropleth map |
Maps in which a specific variable is depicted with shading patterns or colors |
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What is a proportional map |
Type of thematic map in which the area of symbols are varied in proportion to the value of an attribute |
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What is a DOT map |
A thematic map in which a dot Represents some frequency of the mapped value |
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What is a cartogram |
Maps using relative size of political units to convey a value |
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What is remote sensing |
Collects data based on satellites |
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What is a place |
A specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic |
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What does described in the feature help |
Describing the feature helps explain similarities, differences and changes occurring between different locales |
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What is a sense of place |
A strong sense of identity Tilly and character that derives from our surroundings.... Everyone has a unique sense of place |
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What is a famous quote you should know |
We are all the products of where we came from |
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What does your sense of place impact |
Behavioral culture Material culture Comfort and stressors Understandings |
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What is a behavioral culture |
How you act and what you believe |
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What is a material culture |
What you want |
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What is comforts in stressors |
Comfort food |
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What is understanding |
Understanding of other places |
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What is a location |
The position that it occupies on Earth's surface |
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What are the three ways location can be identified |
Place name Site Situation |
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What is a toponym |
Is the given name to a place on Earth |
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What is toponym derived from |
Names of founders Religious connections Local physical features Colonial origins |
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What is site |
The physical character of a specific place |
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What do site characteristics include |
Climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, election |
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What can humans do to a site |
Modify/changing physical characteristics |
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What does situation |
The location of a place relative to other places |
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What can examine situation revel |
Factors leading to the success of certain settlements Or why they are less prosperous |
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What are the two scales region is viewed on |
Spanning across political state Concentrated with one political state |
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What is cultural landscape |
A combination of cultural, religious, economic, physical features |
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What are the three types of regions |
Formal region, functional region, vernacular region |
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What is a way a place is distictive as |
Culture |
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What two ways can culture be described as |
What we care about- spiritual wealth What we take care of- material wealth |
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What are the types of distortions |
Shape, distance, relative size, direction |
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What three elements do a GPS have to have |
Satellite, tracking station, receiver |
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What is reverse hierarchical diffusion |
Common to elites or rural to city |
Jeans |
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What things make space-time compression |
Technology, transportation, communication |
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