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1
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What are the 4 cardinal directions

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North, South,East, West

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What are the intermediate Directions

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Northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest

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What are latitude lines

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Line that go East to west

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what are longitude Lines

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Lines that go North to south

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Where is the equater

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0 degrees latitude

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where is the prime meridian

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0 degrees longitude

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where is the international dateline

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180 degrees longitude

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what are the 4 U.S time Zones

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Eastern, central, mountain, and pacific

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What is standard time

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24 time zones

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What/ when is daylight savings

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3rd sunday if march/ Spring forward in spring

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What/ When is fallback

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1st sunday in November/fallback in fall

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What is a strait

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a narrow passage of water connecting twoseasor two other large areas of water.

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what is a tributary

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a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.

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14
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where is the St. Lawrence river

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Connects all 5 great lakes

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where is the rio grande river

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out lines the border between texas and mexico

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16
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what is the widest river in the world

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the Amazon river

17
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what is the longest river in the world

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the Nile river

18
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what is an Isthmus

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a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and separates two bodies of water.

19
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what is an Archipelago

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A group of Islands

20
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what is a Peninsula

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a piece of land almost surrounded by water orprojectingout into a body of water.

21
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what percent of earth is water

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Hydrosphere/ 75%

22
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What percent of the earth is land

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Lithosphere/ 29%

23
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what causes a tsunami

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movement of plate tectonics and earthquakes

24
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what are the results of plate tectonics

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Mountains, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, Islands, Sea floor spreading

25
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Date of the spring equinox

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March 21-22

26
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Date of fall equinox

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September 22-23

27
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Date of summer solstice

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June 21-22

28
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Date of winter solstice

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December 21-22

29
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What are factors of climate

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Latitude, water, tilt/orbit, jet stream, elevation, urban vs. rural

30
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what is an Alberta Clipper

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A fast moving snow storm

31
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what is a front

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the boundary between 2 different air masses

32
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elements the create weather

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Precipitation, temprature, pressure, wind

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