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What does densely populated mean? |
a lot of people in a small area |
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What is climate? |
temperature and precipitation "averaged" over time |
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What is a cartogram? |
A thematic map that represents the size of something |
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What is weather? |
day-to-day temperature and precipitation |
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How does the ocean or large bodies of water cool? |
slower than land (maritime influence) |
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What does TOWEL stand for? |
Topography, Oceans, Winds (prevailing), Elevations, and Latitude |
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What are the three questions? |
What's there? Why there? Why care? |
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What are the two main types of Geography? |
Human Geography and Physical Geography |
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What are the four categories of Human Geography? PEPC |
Population, Economic, Political, Cultural |
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Why and how do maps lie? |
Maps lie because they are distorted. Things like direction and distance can be distorted because of human bias (perspective) and 2D to 3D |
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What's an example of how a map can be distorted and bias? |
The Mercator Projection distorted the size of continents (etc.) especially around the poles and a person living in Australia might draw a different map than someone living in the U.S. |
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What does a physical map show? |
Shows physical features such as mountains and deserts |
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What does a political map show? |
Borders and cities |
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What is a topographic map? |
A map that uses a reference line and contour lines to represent elevation |
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What is a concept map? |
Linking a concept (usually enclosed in a circle or box) to other related concepts with lines to organize ideas. |
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What does high latitude mean? |
COLD (polar regions) |
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What does low latitude mean? |
HOT (tropical regions) |
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Where are most of the world's deserts and rainforests located? |
The rainforests are located along the equator and the deserts along the tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn lines because these are the hottest and most tropical places with low latitudes |
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What do the bars stand for on a climograph? |
Precipitation |
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What does the line on a climograph stand for? |
Temperature |
