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What is remote sending?
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Satelites are tools used for remote sensing. To view from afar.
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How many time zones are there?
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There are 24 International Date Lines.
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What is Irredentism?
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The State seeks to acquire ethnically similar people to stir up problems of other countries.
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What is formal region?
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The region that has certain properties. Aka, as Uniform or Homogeneous regions.
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Spatial
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a given point on earth's surface.
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What is Desertification?
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The expansion of the desert into neighboring lands due to the environment.
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Talking Western Extension of Europe are:
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W- Euroasia
E-Ural Mountains West Central |
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What is Supernationalism?
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The voluntary association of three or more countries. This includes auch association involving economic, cultural, and/or political spheres. To giv eup sovereignty for betterment of their union?
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The 4 Basic Traditions of Geography are:
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-Regional
-Earth Science -Cultural -Spatial Organization |
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What is a megalopolis?
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That are super-cities that are clustered together like Boston-Washington.
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In Europe:
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-high literacy rates
-high taxes |
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4 landlocked countries are:
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Germany, Autria, Czek, and Hungry
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The sea:
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made transportation great for trading of imports and exports.
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What is Complementarity?
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Regional complementarity exists when 2 regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other's demands.
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Ireland is:
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its own entity and has no resources.
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What is Core Acres?
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Core acres is where major production-manufacturing is produced. It is the most productive region with the greateest centrality and accessability and might contain the capital city as well.
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What is agriculture?
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It is the world's leading occupation.
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Rome is known as what?
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the Vatican City with catholicism.
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What is Biomes?
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This is a terrestrial ecosystem that occupies an extensive geographical area, and is characterized by a specific type of plant community (deserts), and a macro-scale vegetation region.
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What does Greece need in order to survive?
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Tourism
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What is pangea?
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X
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What is Transferability?
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It is the capacity to move a good from one place to another, and at a barable cost; the ease with which a commodity may be transported
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United Kingdom is made of what countries?
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England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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What is hydrosphere?
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Hydorsphere is all the water on the surface.
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What is Maritime?
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Anyting that pertains to the sea.
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What is a Third World Country?
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It is an underdeveloped countries that lack significant resources.
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What is CBD?
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Central Business District is the cultural core with the concentration of tall buildings and businesses.
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What is Multi-lingual?
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Multi-lingual is speaking more than one language as in Switerland where there are many languages spoken.
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What is UDC?
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Under Developed Countries suffer seriously from negative economic and social conditinos, including poor nutrtion, inadequate health, and relative disadvantaged circumstances.
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What is Uniligual?
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It is having only one language as in Austria is unilingual with German only spoken.
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What is Berlin?
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Berlin is an artifical capitol.
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What are the lowland countries of Europe are:?
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-Belgium
-Netherlands -Luxenburg |
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Prime Meridian is located where?
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Greenwich, England from which the longitude is measured east and west.
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What is Balkanize?
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To break up into smaller and often hostile units. Describes a politically fractured regionor area.
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Whatis continental Drift?
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The slow movement of continents controlled by the processes associated with Plate tectonics.
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What is Primate City?
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It is a city almost twicxe in size as it's domestic rival.
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What is Rainshadow Resource?
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It is the relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges.
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Weather vs. Climate?
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Weather is what the conditions are outside the door and Climate is what the conditions are over a region.
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What is the cultural capitol of Europe?
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Paris, France is.
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What is latitude?
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Lines of latitude are parallels that run east and west but measure the North and South distance.
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What is Hinterland?
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The area that is dependent upon the city. Water abbriviates our hinterland. It also has shrunk due to urban sprawl and traffic.
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What is Culture?
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Culture is a particular form or stage of civilization or anything that can be passed on to the next generation.
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What is region?
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Region is common term that is used to decribe a surface that is marked by certain properties or displays specific elements of uniformity.
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Borders of France are:
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-Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany,
Switzerland, Luxenberg, United Kingdom (across the water) |
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What is relative location?
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It is how cities react and interact with each other.
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