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38 Cards in this Set
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Geography means...
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Writing about the world
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U.S. Geological survey prints...
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maps.
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The distance between degrees of latitudes
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69 miles
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Point symbols on a map are..
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cities, buildings, and monuments
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A map compass can also be known as what flower?
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compass rose
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Greek who was the first geographer and calculated the circumference of the world.
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Eratosthenes
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Geek who developed a grid to make it easier to locate places on a map.
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Hipparchus
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Roman who promoted the idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
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Ptolemy
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Argued for the idea that the sun is the center of the universe.
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Copernicus
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Flemish mapmaker whose map allowed sailors to plot their courses in a straight line.
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Mercator
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Paper strips that make up a globe...
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Gores
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Divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres...
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equator
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Distance north or south of the equator...
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latitude
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The imaginary line that cuts the earth into two hemispheres.
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Great circle
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Line of latitude
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Parallel
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One-half of the earth
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hemisphere
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Line of longitude
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meridian
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Distance east or west of the prime meridian...
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longitude
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What separates colors on a relief map
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Contour lines
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What are the two main branches of geography
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Physical and human
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Earth centered...
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geocentric
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Equal halves of the earth...
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hemispheres
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The line that divides the earth into an upper half and lower half...
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equator
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Lines that run east and west...
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Parallels of latitude.
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Lines that run north and south...
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meridians of longitude
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Verbal directions
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mental map
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Detailed land features such as mountains are
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topography
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Art of mapmaking
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Cartography
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Between each latitude are sixty subdivisions known as
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minutes
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Each minute of latitude is divided again into
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seconds
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Lines that run north and south are also called ...
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meridians
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Each of the complete lines that run north and south around the globe forms a
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great circle.
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A game that teaches a grid
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battleship
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A method used to show the earth's surface on a flat map...
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map projection
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Problem with flat maps...
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distortion
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A physical map shows...
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the natural features of the area.
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To determine the distance between two places look at the map's...
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scale
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Five fundamental themes in the study of geography...
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Mr. Lip
M = movement R = region L = location I = interaction P= place |
