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Unit 1: Geography Flashcards

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What states are in the Non-Contiguous area?

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  • Hawaii

- Alaska

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What states are in the Rocky Mountain Region?

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  • Montana
  • Idaho
  • Wyoming
  • Nevada
  • Utah
  • Colorado
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What states are in the South West Region?

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  • Arizona
  • New Mexico
  • Texas
  • Oklahoma
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What states are in the Mid West Region?

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  • North Dakota - Indiana
  • South Dakota - Ohio
  • Nebraska - Michigan
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Iowa
  • Missouri
  • Illinois
  • Wisconsin
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What states are in the South East Region?

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  • Arkansas - North Carolina
  • Louisiana - South Carolina
  • Mississippi - Georgia
  • Alabama - Florida
  • Tennessee
  • Kentucky
  • West Virginia
  • Virginia
  • Delaware
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What states are in the North East Region?

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  • Maine
  • New Hampshire
  • Vermont
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • Rhode Island
  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
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What states are in the Pacific Region?

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  • Washington
  • Oregon
  • California
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What are some important cities (with their state)?

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  • Seattle, Washington. - Juneau, Alaska
  • San Francisco, California- Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Los Angeles, California - Atlanta, Georgia
  • Salt Lake City, Utah - St. Louis, Missouri
  • Denver, Colorado - Chicago, Illinois
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico - Detroit, Michigan
  • San Antonio, Texas - New York City,
  • New Orleans, Louisiana New York
  • Washington DC - Pittsburgh,
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
  • Boston, Massachusetts
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What are the five parts of a map?

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Title
Compass Rose
Key 
Scale Bar 
Boundary Lines
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What does a small scale map show?

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Shows a map with a large land area with little detail

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What does a large scale map show?

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Shows a small land area with a great amount of detail

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What is a general purpose map?

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Shows a wide range of information about an area, two most common types are physical and political maps

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What is a physical map

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Physics maps call out landform and water features

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What is a political map?

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Political maps show the names and political boundaries of stars and countries l, along with human made features such as cities or transportation routes

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What is a special purpose or thematic map?

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Thematic or special purpose maps show specific topics in detail.

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What is a historical map?

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Shows events that occurred in a region over time.

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What is a population density map?

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Shows the average number of people that live in a square mile or kilometer

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What is a military map?

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Show the areas where battles occurred, troop movements, who controlled various sites, and who won the battles.

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What is a globe?

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A globe is a round model of the earth that shows its shape, Lands, and directions as they truly relate to one another

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What is a map?

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A map is a flat drawing of all or part of the earths surface. cartographers, or mapmakers use mathematical formulas to transfer information from the ground globe to a flat map

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What are the advantages of globes?

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Represent the true land shape, directions, and distances

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What are the disadvantages of globes

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Cannot show detailed info

Difficult to carry

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What are the advantages of having maps

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Show small areas in great detail

Display different types of info, such as population/natural resources

Transport Easily

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What are the disadvantages of having maps

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Distort, the accuracy of shapes and distances

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What is a map projection
When the earth is flat on a map and distorted a certain way
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What is Goodes interrupted equal area projection
Shows continents close to the true shapes and sizes, is helpful to compare land area
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What is the Robinson projection
Has my new distortions, continents and oceans are close to their sizes and shapes, but the poles appear flattened
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What is a Mercator projection
Shows land shapes fairly accurately but not size or distance. Areas that are located far from equator are quite distorted. The marketer projection shows true directions, however, making it useful for sea travel.
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What is that Winkle tripel projection
This projection gives good overall view of the continents shapes and sizes. Land areas are not as distorted near the poles as they are in the Robinson projection
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What is latitude
Lines of latitude are imaginary circles that run east to west around the globe The equator circles the middle of the earth like a belt
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What is longitude
Lines of longitude run from north pole to the South Pole The Prime meridian is 0° longitude
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What is absolute location
A places exact location can be identified when you use both latitude and longitude
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What is the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere
the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere are both split by the equator anything north of equator is in the northern hemisphere everything south of the equator is in the southern hemisphere
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What is the Western Hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere
The prime meridian divides the earth into the Eastern and western hemisphere everything east of the prime meridian is in the eastern hemisphere everything west of the prime meridian is in the Western Hemisphere
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What is a graph
Graphs present and summarize information visually
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What is a bar graph
Bar graphs used bars or wide lines to compare data visually
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What is a circle graph
Circle graphs show how the whole of something is divided into parts each part represents a percentage of the whole
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What is a line graph
A line graph show changes over a Period Of time, amounts being measured are plotted on the grid above each year and that are connected by a line
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What is a chart
Charge present related facts and numbers in an organized way
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What is a Table
A table arranges data, especially numbers, and rows and columns for easy reference
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What is a diagram
The diagram is a drawing that shows steps in a process, point out the parts of an object, or explain how something works

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