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23 Cards in this Set
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What are the 5 themes of geography?
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location, regions, movement, place, human/environment reaction
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what type of location deals with addresses or a fixed location?
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absolute location
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what kind of location deals with a general estimate of location
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relative location
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the transportation of goods, services, people, ideas and the communication involved there in
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globalization
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what kind of regions are administrative and governmental boundaries
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formal region
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what kind of region is an area that is served by a particular service?
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functional region
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gator nation is an example of what kind of region
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loosely defined
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refers in part to the emotional substance of cultural groups
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ethos
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run east and west
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lines of latitude
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what is the lowest latitude possible (0 degrees)
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equator
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the highest latitude possible (90 degrees north and south)
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north and south pole
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earth spins at ------mph and is tilted at -----degrees
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1,037 mph and 33 1/3 degrees
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tropic of cancer and tropic of Capricorn lie at?
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23.5 degrees north and south
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the artic and antartic circles lie at
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65.5 degrees north and south
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between tropics of cancer and capricorn
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low latitudes
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between tropics of cancer and the artic circle
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middle latitudes
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between artic circle and north pole
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high latitude
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run north and south
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lines of longitude
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are known as meridians
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lines of longitude
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are known as paralles
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lines of latitude
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an arbitrary reference line that runs through greenwich england.
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prime meridian
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highest longitude possible is 180 degrees and is known as
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the international dateline
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lowest latitude possible is what
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the equator
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