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Geography Test

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What are the five themes of geography?
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What is the Mercator Projection map?
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What is globalization?
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A book of maps.
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Who is the first civilization known to have drawn maps?
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What is a perceptual region?
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What are the two main areas of geography?
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The tool on a map that shows us what each symbol means.
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What is the difference between a globe and a map?
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Fill in the blank: All good maps have what three tools on them: _______, ________, _______.
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Name the four Cardinal Directions
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Why can maps control our perception of the world?
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Name the four Intermediate Directions
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What is the pull factor?
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What is the degree measure of the equator?
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The map that shows what the land looks like. (Think-its physical appearance)
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What is the Gall- Peters Projection map?
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The map that shows towns, cities and country borders. (think political boundaries)
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What is the push factor?
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How are ideas moved in and out of a place?
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A view of the land that is in better proportion but the land masses are stretched and distorted.
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A social, political, economic or environmental force that drives people from a location.
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A social, political, economic or environmental attraction to a new area that draws people from a previous location.
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Maps are often locally created and they reflect the biases in a culture.
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A globe is a more accurate 3D view of the earth whereas a map is a flat 2D view that is distorted.
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physical and human
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0 degrees latitude
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north, south, east, and west
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movement between all people around the earth; sharing of ideas/culture creating an interdependence
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A scale, a Key and a Compass Rose.
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A Political Map
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through TV, radio, internet, books, telephone and people
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An Atlas
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The Key or Legend
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Movement, Region (Human interaction with)Environment, Location and Place
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A view of the land that maintains the angles and shape of land masses but the proportions are wrong.
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A Physical Map
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northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest
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Babylonians (Mesopotamians)
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a region defined by common stereotypes (national sports team)
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The map that shows what the land looks like from the side view.
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How do we describe goods coming in and leaving a place?
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The symbol on a map that shows the four cardinal and four intermediate directions.
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The meridian that measures zero degrees longitude and separates the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
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Who was the first known person to use the term "geography"?
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The line of latitude that separates the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
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The map that shows us how to get from one place to another using roads and highways.
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The tool on a map that helps us to measure distance on a map.
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What are the two types of location
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The science or practice of drawing maps

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