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flash cards for final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is the largest ocean??? | Pacific |
| what is the percent of ocean in the world?? | 70% |
| what is the percent of land on the earth? | 30% |
| how many themes in geography??? | 5 |
| what allows people to communicate? | language |
| what is culture? | way of life of a group of people who share simalar belifs and customs |
| what is the largest continent? | Asia |
| what is the loongest river in the world? | Nile River |
| what is GPS? | Global positoning systems group of sttellites that travel around the earth. |
| what is a globe? | sperical model of earth |
| what is deforestation? | cutting down forests |
| what is environment? | natural surroundings |
| what is physical geography? | land and climate |
| what is human geography? | modify,adapt depend |
| 3 uses of geography? | physical, political, thematical |
| what is the largest fresh water lake? | lake superior |
| what is the largest lake? | caspian sea |
| highest mountain? | everest |
| millville's absolute location? | 39N 75W |
| What is peninsula?????????????? | piece of land with waater on three sides. |
| hottest temperatures on eartth are on what latitude line. | 0/ equator |
| coal and oil are examples of what?? | Natural gas |
| how many themes are in geography? | 5 |
| geographers divide the world into haw many regions? | 7 |
| market economy is based on what? | free enterprise |
| people express thereculture though what? | clothing,art, dance, food. |
| as elevation gets higher temputer gets? | colder |
| renewable resorces are? | plastic, metal |
| northern and southern havee how many seasons? | 4 |
| the shortest day of the year occurs in what season? | winter in northern//summer in southern |
| vallys mountains are example of what???? | landforms |
| what climates are hot? | tropical |
| what basin has the largest rain forest in the world? | Amazon rain forest |
| what basin has the largest rain forest in the world? | Amazon rain forest |
| a maap contains what???? | mapkey, scale, boundery line, capital, river |
| what is a form of language? | hyroglifics |
| an ecomic system sets forth rules on how go and service are produced and ________________? | how they are exanged |
| culture diffusion is the process of spreading ____________ to other culture. | new knowlage |
| in a market economy __________ make the decisions about what to produce divide in a command economy the _____________ does!! | individuals///////government |
| latitude lines are __ lines that run ___ to __ | 2/E/W |
| longitude lines are __ run __ to __ | 2/N/S |
| 2 example of a general of a _________are __________ and a atlas. | topisgraphical map///atlas |
| 2 example of a special purpose map are _________ and _____________ | resorces map// baseball park |
| civilization are highy developed by____?? | cultures |
| earth has how many hemisheres?? | 2 |
| what ia a graph??? | a graph is a diogram representinga system of connections |
| what is a picto graph???? | a picto graph is a graph in which small symbols respecting quatities |
| what is a climograph?? | a climograph is combinat bar and linegraph; info and temputure; prepatation |
| what is elevation? | hieght above sea level |