Unit 1 Test
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What are individual features of land, like mountains and valleys called? | Landforms
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| What two characteristics do geographers study when viewing a place? | Physical and Human Characteristics
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| What is an area that shares common characteristics called? | Region
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| What is a group of satellites traveling around the earth that give specific locations of places called? | Global Positioning System (GPS)
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| What are the 4 uses of geography? | Government leaders use it for planning, the use geography to make decisions, manage resouces.
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| Each planet travels along its own path, or ______, around the sun. | Orbit
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| What type of planets are very huge, mostly composed of gas, spin rapidly, and have many moons? | Jupiter-like planets
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| When the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, the NOrthern Hemisphere is experiencing what season? | Winter
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| What is the layer of rock that surrounds earth's core? | Mantle
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| What are huge slabs of rock that move in the earth's crust called? | Plates
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| What is the theory that scientists believe the earth used to be one land mass? | Plate Techtonics
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| What is the process of breaking surface rock into boulders, gravel, sand, and soil called? | Weathering
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| What are the 2 reasons people settle on all different types of landforms. | Climate and availabilty of resources
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| What % of earth is made up of water, mostly salt water? | 70
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| What term refers to the unpredictable changes in air that takes place over a short period of time? | weather
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| Scientists perdict gases are trapping warm air frome scaping into the atmosphere, known as ____. | Greenhouse Effect
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| In Tropical Rain Forest climates, what is the top layer of the forest called? | Canopy
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| What is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs? | Culture
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| You do what your parents did in this type of economy... | Tradition
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| What is the process of spreading knowledge and skills to other cultures called? | Cultural Diffusion
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