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Geography Test Flashcards

1
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What does the word geography mean

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Earth description

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2
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What is geography the study of

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Our interaction with the environment and the earths living things

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3
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What are the types of geography

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Human, physical, economic, political, regional

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4
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Human geography

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Studies activity of people and how they vary place to place

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Regional geography

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Study of the specific regions of the world and how each affects the other

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6
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5 themes of geography

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Location, place, human environment interaction, movement, region

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7
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Two types of location

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Relative and absolute

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What is relative location

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The position of one place in relation to other places

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Absolute location

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Exact spot on the earth where something is found

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Longitude lines

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Imaginary lines that run vertically from the north to South Pole around the earth. The measure east and west of the prime meridian

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11
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Prime meridian

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Runs through Greenwich England. All lines of longitude are measure either east or west of that point

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12
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Lines of latitude

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Imaginary lines that run in an east west direction but measure north south of the equator

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13
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Another name for lines of latitude

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Parallels(they are equal in distance)

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14
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What are lines of longitude and latitude measured in

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Degrees

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15
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What does place describe

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Human and physical characteristics of a location

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16
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Physical characteristics

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Descriptions of mountains, rivers, beaches, animal and plant life

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Human characteristics

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Human designed cultural features of a place, transportation and communication networks

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18
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What do geographers focus on and what is the personality of geography

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Place

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19
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Life layer

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All places located in a space on the earth

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20
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4 systems that create our environment

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Lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere

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21
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Lithosphere

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Land layer

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22
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Hydrosphere

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Water layer

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23
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Atmosphere

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Air around us

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24
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Biosphere

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Earths plant and animal life working together

25
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Formal region

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Certain characteristic is found throughout the area

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Functional region

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Have one central place and is surrounded by the areas it affects

27
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Perceptual region

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Regions that people perceive exists as a part of their cultural identity

28
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Human environment interaction

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People learn to use what the environment offers them and to change that environment to meet their needs (positive and negative)

29
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Movement

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Linear time and psychological

30
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Most important tool to geographers

31
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Map

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Flat diagram of all or parts of earths surface

32
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A map maker

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Cartographers

33
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Distortion

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Alteration of the original shape

34
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Us geological survey

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Largest employer of cartographers, produces all topographic maps of the us

35
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Projection

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Process of putting the features of a map onto a flat surface

36
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Mercator projection

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Shows true direction. Mostly used by navigators. Shows shape of water and land accurately

37
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Flat plane projection

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Used mapping the north and South Pole.shows true area but distorts shapes (azimuthal projection)

38
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Robinson projection

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Often used in world maps

39
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Three categories of maps

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General reference, thematic, navigational

40
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Different graphs

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Bar, line, pie, pictograph, climograph

41
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How many languages are spoken today

42
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Worlds most extensively spoken language

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Indo European family

43
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What are the languages in the romance branch

A

Spanish and French

44
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Language with the most speakers in the world

A

Mandarin Chinese

45
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Dialect

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Regional variety of a language

46
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What has English become

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Lingua Franca- a language of trade and communication

47
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Ethnic religion

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Focus on one ethnic group and have not spread into other cultures

48
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Animism

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Special type of ethnic religion

49
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Economic geography

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Deals with how people earn a living and use resources

50
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GNP gross national product

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Total value of goods and services that a nation produces in a year

51
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GDP gross domestic product

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Includes only those goods and services created within a nation

52
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Do poor countries have more rapid rates of population growth

53
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The richer the country the more the population…

54
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Urbanization

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How widespread is machine power in a nation

55
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Economic geographers divide the world into how many groups

56
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More developed

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High standards of living, high GNP high GDP complex communication and transportation systems.

57
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Less developed

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Have lower standards of living low per capita GDP. Most people farm. Many don’t have electricity

58
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Why do less developed countries have high birth rates

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Many parents will have a lot of children for the expectation that some will die because there is a high infant mortality rate

Amer. Regionals (3 decks)

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