Geography Chapter 1-2

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Geography

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The study of Place and Space.

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Geographers look at...

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Where things are, and why they are there.

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Physical Geography

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The study of the Natural landscape of the earth.

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Cultural Geography

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The study of the Human Landscape of the earth.

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Cartographers

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Makers of maps.

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Atlas

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Book of maps

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Parts of a map

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Title, Compass rose, legend/Key, and scale.

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Title

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Explains the subject of the map.

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Compass Rose

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Shows the "Cardinal Directions", meaning North, South, East, and West.

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Legend/Key

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Shows and explains the symbols used on the map.

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Scale

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Shows the true size of the objects used on the maps.

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Physical maps show...

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Natural Features on the earth

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Political Maps show...

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Human made features on the earth

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Thematic maps show...

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Information, such as population, resource, weather, and topographic.

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Choropleths

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Use difference in shading or colors to show variables.

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Cartogram

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Represent map feature surfaces in such ways, as to make them proportional to a given statistical variable.

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Geographers study the world by looking at...

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M.R. H.E.L.P

Movement, Region, Human interactive environment, Location, and Place.

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Absolute Location

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Exact place on earth where a Geographic feature is found.

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Relative Location

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A place in comparison to other places around it.

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Place

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Describes the physical features and cultural characteristics of a location.

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Reigon

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Describes an area of the earth's surface with similar characteristics, usually more than one.

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What defines a Region?

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Human and Physical characteristics.

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Movement

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How and why people, plants, animals, and ideas move through time and space.

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Human environment interaction

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People learn to use what that environment offers them and to change that environment to meet their needs.

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Equator

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Divides the earth between Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

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Prime-Meridian

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Divides the Eastern hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere

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Hemisphere

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One half of the earth.

(North, South, East, West)

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Latitude

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Runs parallel to the equator

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Longitude

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Runs parallel to the Prime Meridian

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4 layers of the earth's structure

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Inner-core, outer-core, mantle, crust

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Earth's Core

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Solid metalic inner core, liquid metalic outer core, and both made of iron and nickl.

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Mantle

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Surrounds the core, soft layer of molten (melted) rock called magma.

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Crust

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Thin layer of rock at the earth's surface.

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Atmosphere

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Layers of gas surrounding the earth.

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Lithosphere

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Solid rock portin of the Earth's surface.

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Hydrosphere

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All the water elements of the Earth; Oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes.

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Biosphere

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Where plants and animals live. This includes the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.

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Plate Tectonics

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Movement of large plates (crust) above magma in the mantle.

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Lowest point on Earth:

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Dead Sea in South Asia

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Chemical Weathering

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When minerals are changed completely when they mix with water and air. Like metal changing into rust.

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Mechanical Weathering

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when rocks and other minerals are broken into smaller pieces.

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Loess

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Wind erosion from blown sand, clay, and silt.

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Water erosion:

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Precipitation, mudslides, and avalanches.

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Glaciation

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Changes in landform made from a slowly moving sheet of ice. (Glacier)

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Front (Term)

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Divergent

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Front (Term)

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Convergent Subtraction

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Front (Term)

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Convergent Collision

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Front (Term)

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Transformation

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Highest point on earth:

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Mt. Everest

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Supercontinent

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Panegaea

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Seismograph

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Measures Earth Quakes

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Front (Term)

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Divergent

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Front (Term)

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Convergent Subtraction

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Front (Term)

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Convergent Collision

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Front (Term)

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Transformation