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Unit 1 Maps Flashcards

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What is a GIS?

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A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected recorded stored retrieved manipulated analyzed and displayed to the user

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What does GIS stand for?

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Geographic Information System

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What does a GIS do?

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Take the phenomena of various thematic maps and combine/layer that information into one map to analyze the relationship amongst data

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What is a GPS?

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a space-based global navigation satellite system that provide location and time information in all weather anywhere on earth when there in unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites

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What does GPS stand for?

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Global positioning system

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Who maintains GPS?

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the US government

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What are two major types of maps?

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General Reference and thematic maps

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What are general reference maps?

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-maps in which the base data is there for it’s own sake -the map itself is the information not the reference pointt for some other layer of data

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What are examples of general reference maps?

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Political, physical, topographic, climate, economic/resource, road map

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What are the characteristics of a political map?

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-focuses on the state and national boundaries of an area -included the location of cities -no topographical features

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What are the characteristics of a physical map?

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-shows the physical features of a place in eluding mountains lakes and rivers -elevation is demonstrated by a change of color, (green=low and brown=high)

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What are the characteristics of a topographic map?

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-shows different physical landscape features -display is different through the use of contour lines -contour lines and their spacing show changes in elevation and the rate at which it changes

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What are the characteristics of a climate map?

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-shows specific climate zones of an area based on the average temperature, precipitation etc. -uses colors to show difference in chosen weather condition

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What are the characteristics of an economic/resource map?

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-shows the specific type of economic activity or natural resources present in an area -uses different symbols or colors

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What are the characteristics of a road map?

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-most commonly used -shows major and minor highways and roads -use of important reference including airports, campgrounds, monuments, etc

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What are the characteristics of a thematic map?

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-use the base data of a map(roads, mountains etc) as reference point for some other specific information -provides specific information about a particular location -provides general information about spatial patterns -used to compare patterns on two or more maps

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What are the five main types of thematic maps?

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Chloropleth map, proportional symbol, contour (isarithmic) maps, dot was, asymmetric maps

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What are the characteristics of a chloropleth map?

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  1. -statistical data aggregated over redefined regions, such as countries or states by coloring or shading these regions -assumes relatively even distribution across the defined regions
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What are the charateristics of a proportional symbol map?

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-uses symbols of different sizes to represent data associated with different areas or lations within the map

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What are the characteristics of a dot map?

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The dot symbol remains the same size, howevere the density and number of dots represents the level of activity for that phenomenon

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What are the characteristics of a contour/isarithmic map?

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  • requires some continuous phenomena
  • verysimilar to topographic maps in presentation and structure
  • depicts some other phenomena than land forms
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What are the characteristics of a dasymetric map?

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  • similar to chloropleth map in use of it’s color
  • does not use predefined regions
  • the phenomena determines how to color within the lines
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What are the four main cardinal directions?

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North South East West

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What is another name for a key?

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a legend

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Latitude=____________

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Fatitude

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What is the line of latitude at 0?

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The Equator

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What is at the line or latitude at 90 degrees north?

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The north pole

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What are lines of latitude called?

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parallels

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What do lines of longitude measure?

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Distance east and west

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What are the two end points for lines of latitude?

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the north and south poles

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What is the line of longitude at 0 degrees?

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the prime meridian

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What are lines of longitude called?

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meridians

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What is te primary scale used by the US?

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1:24,000in

=1:2,000ft

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What are the five themes of geography?

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location, interaction, region, place, movement

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What is location?

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the goegraphic situation of people and things, the distribution of various locations of a collection of people or objects

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What is interaction?

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Cultural ecology, relations between cultures and the environment

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What is region?

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an area on the earth’s surface marked by some degree of homgeneity of phenomenon

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What is place?

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the uniqueness or sameness of a location

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What is movement?

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The mobility of people goods and ideasacross the surface of the planet

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What is absolute location?

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latitude and logitude, exact mathmatical measurements,

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What is relative location?

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location of a place irelative to other places

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What are two reasons that relative location is important?

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  • finding an unfamiliar place
  • centrality, understanding an area’s importance
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What is a cultural landscape?

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all human induced changes that involve the surface and the biospere

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What is cultural ecology?

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the multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and it’s natural environment

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What is environmental determinism?

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human behavior, individualy and collectively is affected by the environment

46
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What is possibilism?

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the natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture

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What is environmental modification?

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positive and negative environmental alterations

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What are the distinctive characteristics of a region?

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  1. area-defined spatial extent
  2. location-where it lies on the earth’s surface
  3. boundaries-evident on chosen criteria
  4. cultural
  5. economic
  6. physical
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What are the three types of regions?

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  • Formal
  • Functional
  • Perceptual
50
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What is culture?

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people’s lifestyles, values, beliefs, traits

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What are the components of culture?

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  • cultural region-an area within which a particular culture system prevails
  • culture trait- a single attribute of culture
  • culture complex- a combination of culture traits
  • culture system- grouping of certain complexes
  • culture realm-assemblage of culture or geographic regions
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What are physical processes?

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environmental processes which explain the distribution of human activities

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what is climate?

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long term average weather condition at a particular location

54
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What is vegetation?

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plant life

55
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What are cultural hearths?

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sources of civilization from which an idea innovation or ideaology originates

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What is cultural diffusion?

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the spread of an innovation or ideaology from it’s source to another culture

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What is expansion diffusion?

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an innovationor ideology develops in a source area and remains strong while also spreading outward

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What are the three types of expnasion diffusion?

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  • Contagious diffusion-almost al adjacent individuals are affected
  • Hierarchical- the main channel of diffusion some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused
  • Stimulus- spread of an underlying principle
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What is relocation diffusion?

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spread of an innovation or ideaology through the physical movement of individuals

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What are three types of relocation diffusion?

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  • Migrant diiffusion- when aninnovation originates somewhere and enjoys strong, but breif adoption and looses strength at the origin byt the time it spreads to another area
  • acculturation-when a culture is substantially changed through interaction with another culture
  • transculturation-near equal change between culture complexes
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What are the four traditions of georaphy?

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Spatial,area studies, man-land, earth-science

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Describe Spatial.

Who are the main geographers?

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  • Mapping places and people
  • geometric position and layout
  • movement-mapping people
  1. Cladius Ptolemy-Greek AD 100-170
  2. Alfred Wegener Climatologist
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Describe Area studies.

Who were the main geographers?

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  • aka chorographic tradition
  • characterizes a space, either a neighborhood or region or nation
  1. Strabo 63 BC-AD 24
  2. Carl Sauer 1889-1975
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Describe Man-Land Tradition.

Who were the main geographers?

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  • Studies the relationship between humans and their environment
  1. Hippocratic- Greek physician of the 5th century
  2. Alexander Von Humboldt
65
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Describe Earth Science.

Who were the main geographers?

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  • reflects work in the natural or physical world
  1. Aristotle 384-322 bc
  2. Immanuel Kant1724-1804 german
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What is a formal region?

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common human characteristic or physical attribute

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What is a functional region?

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  • product of interactions of the people and movement of various kinds
  • has a center/node
  • technology
68
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What is a megalopolous?

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  • formal and functional
  • metropolitan areas and urban development
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What is a perceptual/vernacular region?

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Based on peoples perceptions/feelings about an area.

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What are the three levels or regional influence?

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core, domain, sphere

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What are five common cultural characteristics?

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geographic proximity, prevailing livelihood, dominant crop, common history, common set of trading partners

72
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What is large scale?

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less area more detail

73
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What is small scale?

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more area less detail

74
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What are the types of map projections?

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cylindrical, conic azimuthal/planar

75
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Cylindrical Equal Area (peters)

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  • -straight meridians and parallels
  • -meridians equally spaced, parallels unequally spaced
  • scale is true along the equator and two lines equidistant
  • becomes more distorted after 90 degrees from the equator
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What are the five types of distortions?

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  • direction
  • distance
  • scale
  • area
  • conformality- the scale of the map is the same in any direction
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Cylindrical Mercator Projection

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  • straight meridians and parallels that intersect at right angles
  • scale is true at the equator and two lines equidistant
  • marine navigation, lines of constant direction
  • distorts north=large
78
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Cylindrical Mollweide Projection

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  • world maps
  • central meridian is straight, 90 degree meridians are circular arcs
  • parallels are straight but unequally spaced
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Cylindrical Robinson

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  • national geographic
  • based on tables of coordinates not formulas
  • distorts, shape, area, scale, and distance balanced
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Conic Albers Equal Area

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  • distorts scale and distance except along stand parallels
  • east west extent US countries like that
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Azimuthal Polar/Orthographic

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  • perspective views of hemispheres
  • distortion increases away from the center
82
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Goode’s Projection

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-cut and paste

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Dymaxion Map

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  • depicts earth’s continents as one island or nearly contiguous
  • the arrangement interrupts that map in order to preserve shapes and sizes
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AP Human Geography (8 decks)

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