geo final practice
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| Peninsula | Piece of land with water on three sides
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| Water covers what percentage of the earth's surface? | 70.78%
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| Drought | long pierod of extreme dryness
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| As eleavtion gets higher; temperature gets | altitude
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| land covers about what percent of the earth's surface? | 29.22%
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| renewable resources can be | grown again
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| elevation | height above sea level
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| northern and southern hemispheres have | opposite seasons
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| the shortest day of the year occures in what seasons? | winter
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| valleys, mountains, plains, are examples of | landforms
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| largest ocean | pacific ocean
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| what climates are hot | tropical
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| hottest temperatures on earth found at what latitude line | equator
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| what has the largest basin rain forest in the world | amazon rainforest
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| coal and oil are examples of what fuels | fossil
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| deforestation | widespead cutting of forests
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| physical geography | covers the topics related to the surface of the earth
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| human geograohy | the study of culture
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| geographers | studys the earth's phiscal environment and habitat
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| name three uses of geography | locating, mapping landmarks, mapping dangers
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| regions | areas that share common characteristics
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| landform | individual features of land
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| GPS | GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM group of satellites
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| GIS | GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEM special software
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| environment | natral
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| there are how many themes in geography | 5
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| globe | round reprentation of the earth
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| the earth has how many hemispheres | 4
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| latitude lines are what lines that run what and what | parrellel lines that run E to W
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| longitude lines are what lines that run what to what | imaginary lines that run N to S
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| absolute location | exact location
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| a map contains a | map key, scale bar, compass rose, and a title
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| two examples of a general purpose map are | political and physical
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| two examples of a spiecal purpose map are | climate and resource map
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| graphs | summurizing and precenting viually
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| charts | graphic ways of presenting information clearly
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| pictograph | a graph in which small symbols reprecent quntities
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| climograph | combination bar and line graph giving information about temperature and precipitation
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| in a market economy what or who make the decisions about what to produce, but in a command economy the what or who does | people government
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| geographers divide the world into what regions | culture
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| people express their culture through the | arts
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| what allows people to communicate | language
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| ethnic group | share the same culture
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| what helps people answer questions about life's meaning | relgion
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| dictator | rules with absolute rule
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| a market economy is based upon | free enterprize
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| civilizations are highly developed | culture
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| what is a local form of language | dialect
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| culture | a way of life how people live
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| an economic system sets forth rules on how goods and services are produced and | sold or exchanged
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| cultural diffusion is the process of spreading what to other cultures | ideas
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| largest continent | asia
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| highest mountain | everest
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| largest lake | Caspin Sea
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| longest river | nile
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| largest freshwater lake | superior
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| smallest continent | alstralia
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| milville's absolute location | 39 degrees N 75 degrees S
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| millvile's relative location | SW of pennsylvania
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