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51 Cards in this Set
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absolute location
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latitude & longitude coordinates
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latitude lines
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run east/west
parallel to the equator. describes how far north something is. |
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degrees of longitude lines
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0 degrees = equator
90 degrees = Poles east/west |
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latitude lines
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run north/south
they touch the poles called meridians |
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Where is the Prime Meridian?
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0 degrees
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Where is the International Date Line?
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(mostly) 180 degrees
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What are degrees divided by?
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60 minutes
(either long. or lat) |
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_ _ minutes=1 degree
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60 minutes in 1 degree
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_ _ seconds=1 minute
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60 seconds in 1 minute
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_ _minute of latitude= 1 nautical mile
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1 minute of latitude= 1 nautical mile
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_ _ degree of latitude=60 nautical miles
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1 degree of latitude=60 nautical miles
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What are circles determined by?
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By the tilt of the axis of the Earth 23.5 degrees
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what is the degree of the Tropic of Cancer?
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23.5N
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what is the degree of the Tropic of Capricorn?
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23.5 S
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where are the 2 places the sun never rises or sets for at least 1 day a year?
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Arctic Circle & Antarctic Circle
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What is the degree of the Arctic Circle?
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66.5N
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What is the degree of the Antarctic Circle?
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66.5 S
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What is "Great Circles"?
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the place where the plane which is defined by any 2 points on the Earth and the center of the Earth intersects the surface of the Earth
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True North refers to what?
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North Pole (on the Earth's axis)
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Magnetic North refers to what?
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The Earth Magnetic north pole - in Greenland
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What is Magnetic Declination?
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the difference between true N and magnetic N.
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What are transition zones?
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where realms meet
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what are the 6 (4) elements of geography?
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-places & regions
-physical systems -human systems -environment & society |
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What is "the rust belt?
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In the North/East side of the country was called this b/c there was heavy industry there.
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Functional region
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A region marked less by its sameness than its dynamic internal structure; b/c it usually focuses on a central node.
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Continental drift
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The slow movement of continents controlled by the processes associated with plate tectonics.
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Tectonic plate
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Continents are 'rafts' of relatively light rock that rest on slabs of heavier rock.
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Ice age
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Lasts tens of millions of years chills the planet and causes massive ecological change.
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Glaciation
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repeated advances of continental ice sheets
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Interglacials
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The truly warm phases, when the ice recedes poleward & mountain glaciers melt away.
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Desertification
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The process of desert expansion into neighboring steppelands as a result of human degradation of fragile semiarid environments
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Population distribution
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The way people have arranged themselves in geographic space.
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Urbanization
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The proportion of a country's population living in urban places is its level of urbanization.
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Culture
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The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
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State
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A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is reorganized by a significant portion of the international community.
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European State Model
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A state consisting of a legally defined territory inhabited by a population governed from a capital city by a representative gov.
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Development
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The economic, social, and institutional growth of national states.
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Core Area
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The largest population cluster, the the most productive region, and the part of the country with the greatest centrality and accessibility.
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Periphery
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The contrasting spatial characteristics of, and likages between, the have (core) and have-not (periphery) components of a national or regional system.
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Nation-state
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A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
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Nation
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a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. a group of tightly-knit people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, & other shared cultural attributes
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Climate
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The long-term conditions of aggregate water over a region, summarized by averages and measures of variability.
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Climatic region
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Humid equatorial
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Climatic region
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No dry season
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Climatic region
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Monsoon
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Climatic region
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Dry Winter
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Climatic region
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Arid
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Climatic region
C |
Humid temperature
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Climatic region
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High cold
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Climatic region
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Polar cold
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Climatic region
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Highland
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