World Geography Final

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Study of distribution and interactive physical and human features on earth

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Geography

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divides the earth into East and West half

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Prime Merdian

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Also called the Greenwich Mediterranean

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Imaginary line that divides the earth into northern and southern half

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Equator

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Imaginary lines running across or around the earth

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Latitude

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Imaginary lines running over the poles

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Longitude

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Mapmaker

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Cartographer

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Continuous cirlculation of water between atmosphere,ocean, and earth

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Hydrogogic Cylce

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The physical process that breaks rock into smaller and smaller pieces of rock.

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Weathering

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The movement of material by water,wind,and glaciers

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Erosion

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Weather conditions at a location over a long period of time

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Climate

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Long period without rain or with very little rain

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Drought

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Falling water droplets in form of rain,sleet,snow, or hail

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Precipitation

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Each half of the globe

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Hemisphere

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Knowledge,attitudes,behaviors shared by members of a specific group

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Culture

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Spread of ideas,inventions,and patter of behavior.

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Cultural Diffusion

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Basic support systems of a country

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Infrastructure

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Road,Bridges,Power plant,Schools,Hospital

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A wide treeless plain

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Steepe

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Flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Artic Ocean

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Tundra

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Term for the flat,grassy,mostly treeless plains in the tropical grasslands region

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Savanna

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Forest located in Tropical Zone with mostly broadleaf trees

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Rainforest

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Evergreen coniferous forest across the northern Hemsphere,in North America and Russia

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Taiga

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Needle leaf trees

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Coniferous

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Broadleaf trees

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Deciduous

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Maple and Oak

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The difference in elevation of a landforms from the lowest point to the highest point.

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Relief

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The combined characteristics of landforms

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Topography

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Hills,Valleys,Plateau,Mountains

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Moving pieces of earth's lithosphere

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Tectonic Plate

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Violent movement of the earth produced when tectonic plates slip past each other.

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Earthquake

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Fracture if the earth's crust

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Fault

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The point in the earth's surface where an earthquake begins

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Epicenter

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Is a rupture on the earth crust which allows hot lava and guests to escape

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Volcano

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Mammoth that reaches Earth's surface

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Lava

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The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim

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Ring of Fire

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Landmasses above water on land

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Continent

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Weather patter created by the warming of the waters off the west coast of South America

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El Ñino

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An interdependent community of plants and animals

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Ecosystem

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All the parts of the earth where plants and animals live

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Biosphere

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Regional ecosystem divided into forest,grassland,desert,Ms tundra

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Biome

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The solid rock portion of the earth

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Lithosphere

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Marks the beginning of summer and winter

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Solstice

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The longest and shortest day

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Marks the beginning of spring and autumn; day and night are of equal length

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Equinox

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A tropical storm like a hurricane,that occurs in the western Pacific Ocean

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Typhoon

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A powerful funnel

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Tornado

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Shaped column of spiraling air

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Heavy snowstorm with winds of more than 35 miles per hour

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Blizzard

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The transfer of heat in the atmosphere by upward motion of air

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Convection

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Created by the burning of fossil fuels trap solar energy causing higher temperatures

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Greenhouse Effect

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Permentaly frozen ground

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Permafrost

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A naturally formed feature on the surface of the earth

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Landform

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Gases get trapped in atmosphere and heat cannot escape causing earth warming

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Global warming

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The belief that nature objects such as rivers and rocks possess a soul or spirit

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Animistic

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Belief in many gods

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Monotheistic

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Christianity

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Belief in many gods

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Polythestic

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Government ruled by religious leaders

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Theocracy

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The people hold political power either directly or elected representatives.

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Democracy

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Government controls all aspects of society

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Totalitarian

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Nazi Germany under Hitler

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Type of government in which a ruling family is headed by a king or Queen

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Monarchy

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Uses 24 satellites to find exact location on earth

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Geographic Positing System (GPS)

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Basic support system needed to keep an economy

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Infrastructure

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A group that shares a geographic region ,a common language ,and culture

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Ethnic group

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Beilf in supernatural powers

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Religion

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Number of live birth per thousands population

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Birthrate

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Death rate; number of deaths per thousand

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Mortality Rate

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The statistical data of a population,such as average age,income,education

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Demographics

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A graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of population

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Population pyramid

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Factors forcing people to leave a place

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Push Factors

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To escape,oppression ,poverty,or war

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Pull factors

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Factors attraction in people to migrate to a place

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Jobs,freedom,safety

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Average number of people in a measureable area

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Population density

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Producing only enough food to survive

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Subsistence agricultural

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Total value of all goods and services produced by a country in one year

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Gross Natural Product (GNP)

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Cutting down and cleaning away of trees and forest

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Deforestation

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New plants,animals,ideas & diseases exchange between America and Europe

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Columbian Exchange

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A way of cleaning fields for planting by cutting and burning trees and brush

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Slash and Burn

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Ancient methods for growing crops on hillsides or mountain slopes

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Terraced Farming

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Place of origin or major culture located where different cultures meet and diffuse

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Cultural Hearth

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Economic system found in the US

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Free Enterprise

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Capitalism and Market Economy

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Government owns and operates basic industries

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Socialism

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Privately owned

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The government owns and operates all businesses

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Communism

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Using natural resources directly from the land

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Primary Economy Activity

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Farming

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Are activities that have to do with manufacturing new products

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Secondary economic activity

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Doctors,Salesman,Teachers

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Activities that focus on service

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Tertiary economic activity

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Manufacturer

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Focus on providing information

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Quaternary economic activity

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Business, reports,data,research

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Avast grassland of central North America that is largely trees

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Great Plain

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Largely treeless

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Fan like landform made of decompose sediment left by River as it enters the ocean

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Delta

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It enters the ocean

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A land bridge through to have connected what are now Russia and Alaska

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Beringia

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A section of waterways with close gate where water levels are raised and lowered do which ships pass

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Locks

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The movement of people within a country or region

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Migration

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The one of the highest points in North America that marks separation between rivers flowing Eastern and Westward

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Continental Divide