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What is geography
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The study of spatial variation, of how and why things fifer from pace to place on the surface of the earth, how observable spatial patterns evolved throughout time
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What is geo
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The world
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What is graphein
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To write or describe
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What is was early man’s involvement with/as a geographer
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Made maps to find survival needs food, water, and sex
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What is spatial analysis
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Study of how things are similar and different from place to place
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What types of geography might you study in college
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Cultural political economic population
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What are the five fundamental themes of geographic science
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Location, region, human/land place and movement
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What is ethnocentrism
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Practice of evaluating another culture by your own culture
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Why is this a foolish practice
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You do not understand the culture because you are blinded by your own culture
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What is absolute location
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Id of a place by mathematical coordinates
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What is relative location
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Position of a place in relational to other places or activities
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What is an example of absolute location
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Global grid system
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What is an example of relative location
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The classroom vs library long walk to car
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What is absolute direction
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Cardinal points
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What is relative direction
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More culturally based and directionally variable
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What is an example of absolute direction
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North, south, east, and west
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What is an example of relative direction
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Down south out west
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What is absolute distance
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Spatial separation between two points
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What is relative distance
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Informal way to describe distance
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What is an example of absolute distance
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Exact miles
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What is an example of relative distance
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Units of length or time
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What is a scale
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Sixe or scope of some phenomena
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What are the different types of scales
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Global, continental, regional, local, and micro
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What is a global scale
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Largest scale earth sun relationship
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What is a continental scale
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Large scale that allows large relationships to be studied
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What is a regional scale
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Modest sized scale that may cover several hundred miles
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What is a local scale
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Smallest of the macro scale the event are in close proximity
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What is a mirco scale
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Smallest observable scale
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What is spatial distribution
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The distribution of things on the earth
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What is density
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The measure of the number of something within a defined area
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What is dispersion
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The amount of spread of some phenomena over an area
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What are regions
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Earth areas that display significant elements of internal uniformity and external difference from surrounding places
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What are the four characteristics of regions
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Location, spatial extent, boundaries, and hieratically arranged
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What is location
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Often expressed in the name selected
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What is spatial extent
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Define territories with uniform sets of physical cultural and organization features
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What are boundaries
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Defined territories not on map
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What are hieratically arranged
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Arranged in some form of order
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What are formal regions
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Areas that are uniform in at least one combinations of physical or cultural features
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What are functiona; regions
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Ares that are defined by their interactions and connection
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What are functional regions based on
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Their relationship with others close by
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When do the boundries remain on fuctional regions
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As long as the connection remains constant and offers some benefit
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What is an example of a formal region
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State of ten
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What is an example of a functional region
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Lose angeles metropolitan
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what are hinterlands
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Literally means a country behind, a surrounding are served by an urban center
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what is a core area
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A heartland or nucleus of a state containing its most developed areas, greatest wealth, densest populations, and clearest national identity
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what is periphery
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The outer regions or boundaries of an area
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what is site
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Physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of the place itself
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what is situation
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External reations of the local
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what are maps
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Tool that is used to tell where places are and to interpret the advantages or disadvantages of their locations
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why are maps and projection related
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Maps are not perfect becauses you cant depict the curved surfaces of 3-d earth on 2-d flat paper, projections are ways to compenstate for these shortcomings
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what is latitude
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Parellels that run horizontal
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what does latitude measure
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Angular distance north and south of the equator
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where is the equator and what does it divide
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At 0 latitudeand divides northern and southern hemspheres
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what is the only parallel that is a great circle
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The equator
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what is a great circle
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Earth divided into two equal halves
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what is longitude
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Meridians that run vertically
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what does longitude measure
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The angular distance east and west of the prime meridian
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where does the prime meridian run through
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Greenwich eng at 0 longitude
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what is the reciprocal to the prime meridian
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180th meridian
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what does longitude separate
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The east and west hemispheres
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all meridians are what
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Great circles
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what are the latitudinal geographic zones
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Arctic, subarctic, midiatitude, subtropical, equatorial and tropical, subtropical, midlatitude, subantarctic, and Antarctic
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what is the best kind of map
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A globe
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what are key reference points
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where you start measuring, north and south poles, equator, prime merdian, latitude, and longitude
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what is map scale
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The relationship between size or length of a feature on the map and the same item on the earth’s surface
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what is map scale’s purpose
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To determine the amount of data generalization on a map
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the smaller is scale of the map the
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Larger is the area it covers and the more generalized are the data it portrays
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what do large scale maps show
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Small areas
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what do small scale maps show
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Large areas
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what are the three scale types that are used
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Written graphic and representative fraction
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what is a model
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Simplified abstraction of reality
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what do models accomplish
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Understanding and explaining some pheonomen
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what is a mental map
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Images about an area or place developed by an individual on the basis of impression or info received interpreted, and stored
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Using any map projection there will always be some errors because
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A map has a depict the curved surface of the 3-d eart on a two d sheet of paper
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The cardinal direction of north is this type of direction
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absolute
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A geographic distribution’s pattern which emphasizes items agglomerated around a single node is said to be_______
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Clustered and centralized
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Who reputedly coined the term, “geography?”
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eratosthenes
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A region is characterized by which of these attributes
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Spatial extent, location, boundaries, and hierarchical arrangement
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The essential perspective used by geographers in forming their concepts is
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Spatial
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Site refers to the
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Internal locational attributes of a place
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The statement that "the journey to work is 15 minutes by bus" is an example of
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relative distance
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The arc distance in degrees between the North and South Poles is
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180
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Modern geography traces its origins to the
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17th century
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Which of the following is not a subfield of human geography
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Atmosphere
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The early Greeks
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observed how humans lived in various areas against the backdrop of the earth's physical features
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Which of the following statements is correct
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The smaller the scale of the map the larger the area it depicts
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Which of the following statements concerning longitude is not correct
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Meridians are parallel to the equator
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"Hinterlands" literally means
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a country left behind
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