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Finale review
Question | Answer |
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Pininsula | -Piece of land with water on three sides |
Water covers what percentage of the earth's surface? | 70% |
As elavation gets higher; tempertures get: | Lower |
Land covers what percentage of earth's surface? | 30% |
Renwable resources can be - | Replaced or reused |
Elevation- | Hight above sea level |
Northern and Southern hemispheres have- | Oppisite seasons |
The shortest day ofd the year occurs in what seasons? | winter |
Valleys, mountains, plains are exsamples of- | Landforms |
The largest ocean is- | The Pacific Ocean |
What kind-of climates are hot? | Tropical |
Hottest temperatures on earth found at what laitude? | Equator |
What basin has the largest rain forest in the world? | The Amazon Rainforest |
Coal and oil are exsamples of? | Fossil Fuels |
Deforestation- | Wide spread cutting of forest |
Physical Geography | Dealing with natural features |
Human Geography | Dealing with Culture, people, cuntries, ect. |
Geographers | An expert on geography-study earth-variaty |
Name three uses of geography | Mapping, Direction, Exploration |
Regions | Areas that share common characteristics |
Landform | individual features of the land |
GPS | Global Positoning Systems |
GIS | Geogropihic Information System |
Environment | Natural Surroundings |
How many themes are there in Geography? | 5 |
Globe | Sphereical model of Earth |
The Earth has- | 4 hemispheres |
what are Laitude lines | Parrales or igmaginary lines that run east to west |
What are Longitude lines | Imaginary maridian lines that run North to South |
Absolute Location | exsact location |
What does a map contain? | A Map key, scale, bar, compase rose, and a title |
Two exsamples of a general purpose map are? | Climate and nature resources map! |
Graphs | a summirising and presenting information visualy |
Charts | Graphic way of presenting information clrealy |
Pictograph | a graph in which small simboles repersent quantity |
Climograph | A bar or line graph that shows rain fall |
IA.)In the market economy who made the decisions about what to produce? B.)But in an a command economy who makes the decisions? | A.) People B.) Goverment |
Geographers divide the world in to wshat regions? | Cultural |
People express their culture through the | arts |
What allows people to communicate? | Language |
Ethnic Groups | People who share a comin cultur or language |
Helps people answer question abouyt life's meaning | Religon |
Dictators | Rulers with absolute authority |
What is a market economy based upon? | Free enterprize |
Civilizations are highly developed... | Culture |
__________is a local form of Language? | Diolect |
Culture | Is away of life of a group of people |
Aq economic system sets forth rules on how goods and services are produced and... | sold or exchange |
Cultural diffusion is the process of spreading______to other cultures | ideas |
Largest Continent | Asia |
Highest mountain | Mount Everset |
Largest Lake | Caspin Sea |
Longest River | Nile |
Largest Freshwater Lake? | Lake Supierior |
Smallest Continent | Australia |
Millville's absolute location | 39N, 75W |
Millville's revative location is___ of Pennsylvania | South East |