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List and Describe the two branches of geography |
Cultural- deals with human culture and its impact on the earth - Physical- deals with the natural features of the earth |
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What is climate? |
The long term conditions of aggegate weather over a region, summarized by averages and measures of variability. |
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What is weather |
The immediate and short term conditions of the atmosphere that impinge on daily human activities. |
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List and describe the two types of location |
-absolute- the position of place of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, seconds of latitude and longitude. - Relative- the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. |
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What is place? |
What makes a particular region unique: characteristics can be types of landforms, climate, culture, and governments that encompass a region. |
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What is a composite of its leading cultural, economic, historical, political, and appropriate environmental features |
Geographic Realms |
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What are boundries? |
sharp divisions |
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What are transition zones? |
where two grographic realms meet. - they are difficult to represent and are ever-changing. |
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What is a state? |
-country - political territorial organization of the world in a system of sovereignty. |
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The use of the term "state" for the United States of America is what? |
Historically correct, however, is currently a misnomer. |
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What is the gradual reduction of regional differences at the world scale, resulting from increasing international cultural, economic, and political exchanges? |
Globalization |
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What defines geography? |
the study of the patterns and processes of human and environmental landscapes, where lanscapes comprise real and perceived space. |
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What is area? |
The part of the Earths surace with less specificity than region. |
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What is frontier? |
Zone of advance penetration, usually of contention: an area that is not yet fully integrated into a national state. |
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What are the most common natural boundaries of the worlds realms? |
Oceans and Seas |
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What type of climate does Mississippi have? |
No dry season, hot summer |
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Where is the worlds largest population cluster? |
South Asia |
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What is the approximate population of the world? |
7.2 Billion |
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What is the fundamental tool of the geographer? |
Maps |
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What is a Cartographer |
The science of map making |
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What is map scale? |
shows the relationship of a features size on a map to its actual size on the earth. |
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What is a maps smallest discernible unit? |
resolution |
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What shows location of places and geographic features |
reference map |
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What is latitude |
numbering system that enumerates parallels which are circles drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians. |
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What is the latituede of the equator? |
0 |
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What is the latitude of the poles? |
North- 90 - south- 90 |
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What is the equator? |
imaginary line on the earths surface equidistance from the North and South poles. |
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What does the equator divide? |
the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres |
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What is longitude? |
numbering system that enumerates meridians which are arches that are drawn between the north and south poles. |
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What is the Prime Meridian? |
vertical line that marks 0 longitude measurement on the globe. |
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What is the longitude of the Prime Meridian? |
0 |
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What does the Prime Meridian separate? |
Western and Eastern hemispheres. |
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What is the international date line? |
imaginary line on the earth's surface that runs from north to south and demarcates one calendar day from the next. |
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What time zone is New York in? |
Eastern |
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What time zone is Mississippi in? |
Central |
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What time zone in Colorado in? |
Mountain |
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What time zone is Arizona in? |
Mountain |
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What time zone is California in? |
Pacific |
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What is a thematic map? |
maps or charts that show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. |
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What is choropleth map |
maps using differences in shading, coloring or the placing of symbols. |
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What are isoline maps? |
uses continuous lines joining points of the same value. |
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What are mental maps |
shows a persons international perception of space. |
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Geographic information system |
a computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. |
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Global Positioning system |
determines the precise position of something on earth through satellites, tracking stations, and receivers. |
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Is there a geographic basis for the claim that Europe is a continent? |
NO |
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Why is Europe considered a continent? |
For political reasons. Europe has been racked with war throughout its history to the point where more than 70 former countries have been conquered. |
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Are there any deserts in Europe? |
No |
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What is a city-state? |
small territories comprised of cities and their hinterlands that were ruled by elected governments. |
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What were the first 2 city states? |
Athens and Sparts |
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What did Europeans explore during the Renaissance? |
Discovery and exploration of new continents, the growth of commerce, the invention of paper, the mariner's compass, and gunpowder. |
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What process changed Europe from agraian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industrial and machine manufacture? |
Industrial Revolution |
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When was the European Union created? |
1993 |
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What is the largest city in Europe? |
Paris |
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What is a primate city? |
A city that is considerably larger than others |
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Which country has the largest economy in Europe? |
Germany |
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Who are the two ethnic groups of Belgium? |
Flemings and Walloons |
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What is the nameof the country formerly known as HOlland? |
Netherlands |
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Where is the Matterhorn located? |
Switzerland |
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England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland make up what? |
The united Kingdom |
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What is the worlds largest island? |
Greenland |
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Where was lego invented? |
Denmark |
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What is the smallest country in the world? |
Vatican City |
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Which European country has the most volcanoes? |
Italy |
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A revolution in what country lead to the end of absolutist states ruled by all powerful monarchs? |
France (the French Revolution) |
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What refers to a people with a single language, a common history, and a similar ethnic background? |
Nation |
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What relates to legal membership in the state? |
Nationality |
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What does lingua franca mean? |
common language |
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What is metropolis? |
a city and its suburban ring |
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What is the central business district? |
the downtown heart of a central city. Marked by high land values. |
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What is happening to Europe's native population? |
shrinking |
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What is happening with Europe's immigrant population? |
Growing. offsetting Europes population deficit. |
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Centrifugal force |
forces that tend to divide a country |
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Centripetal forces |
forces that unite or bind a country |
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What is the currency of the European Union? |
Euro |
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site |
international location attributes of an urban center including its local spatial organization and physical setting |
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situation |
the external location attributes. Its relative location. |
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hegemony |
the political dominance of a country by another country. |
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How many countries were once a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? |
6 |
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When did the USSR dissolve? |
1991 |
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The Czech Republic and Slovakia were united as what country after WWII but became independent in 1993? |
Czechoclovakia |
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What is the only European country to still have the death penalty which are carried out by firing squal? |
Belarus |
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What is the largest territorial state in the world? |
Russia |
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Which country launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik? |
Russia |
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What type of alphabet does the Russian language use? |
Cyrillic |
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Russia borders how many countries? |
15 |
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What is permafrost? |
frozen water in the near surface soil and bedrock of cold environments producing frozen ground. |
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What is tundra? |
Treeless plain that lies along the Artic shore in northernmost Russia and Canada. |
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What is Taiga? |
The subarctic, mostly coniferous snow forest south of the tundra that lines the Arctic shore. |
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Due to what, climatologists predict improved conditions for Russia? |
global warming |
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Because the diamond deposits in Siberia are so extensive, non-Russian countries do what in order to prevent Russia from mining them because of a fear the diamond market would collapse? |
Pay them |
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What are the oldest mountains in the world? |
Ural |
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What is the longest river in Europe? |
Volga |
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In what direction do rivers flow in the West Siberian Plain? |
North |
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There are how many volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula? |
70 |
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What is the world's deepest lake and the largest reservoir of fresh water on earth? |
Baykal |
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Who was the first tsar of Russia? |
Ivan the terrible |
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How many years was Russia ruled by women? |
70 |
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What occurred in 1917 establishing Marxism as the economic system and ruling government? |
Bolshevik Revolution |
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What two cities have the largest McDonald's in the world? |
Moscow and Beijing |
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How long would it take you to travel from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Trans Siberian Railway? |
152 hours 27 minutes (more than 6 days) |
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What American holiday is celebrated in St. Petersburg each January? |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
