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20 Cards in this Set
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What is geography, and what are its two root words? |
The study of man in space and time |
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What is an absolute location? |
A precise mathematical location |
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What is a relative location? |
Position of a place or thing in relation to another place |
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Why is the world getting smaller? |
Because of technology |
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What is a region? |
area is displaying element of internal uniformity and external differences from surrounding areas |
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Gulf |
A large deep Bay |
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Isthmus |
A narrow stretch of land connecting two large landmasses |
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Strait |
A narrow stretch of sea connecting two large areas of seas |
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Canal |
A man made waterway connecting two bodies of water used for navigation or trade purposes |
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Plane of the ecliptic |
A imaginary line centered from the Sun to the center of the earth |
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Peninsula |
A portion of land that is nearly surrounded by water |
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Island |
A piece of land surrounded by an ocean, sea, or lake |
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Who developed the Township & Range System; what is it used for? |
Thomas Jefferson and friends. It is used 2 portion out land ownership. |
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What are latitude lines called and what do they measure? |
Parallel. And they measure the distance from north to south or vice versa. |
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What are longitude lines called and what do they measure? |
Meridians. A measure the distance from east to west or vice versa. |
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What is the prime meridian? What town does it go through? |
An imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich England, serving by agreement as the 0 degree line of longitude. |
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What is the International Date Line? Why is it important? How many time zones are there in the world? How many in the US? |
Where each new day begins generally following the180th meridian. From this we get our time zones. There are 24 time zones in the world and 4 in the US. |
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What is a thematic map? |
It shows spatial patterns. |
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What are contour lines and what do they show? What is the contour interval? |
A map line along with all points are of equal elevation above or below a dent on plane, usually mean sea level. |
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What is the map scale and how can it be expressed? |
Actual ground level |
