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The study of the interaction between people and the earth., It is a science. It describes the physical and cultural features of Earth.
What is Geography
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Thick rock layer around the Earth's core
What is Mantle
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Fourth of the five themes of geography. This theme of geography answers the question: "How do people, goods, and ideas move from one location to another?"
What is Movement
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The largest canyons and deepest valleys were created by?
What is Moving Water
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23 ½ ˚ N mark the boundaries of the places on the earth that receive the most direct sunlight and the greatest heat energy from the sun.
What is the Tropic of Cancer
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The exact location of a place on the globe using latitude and longitude is called ______________ location
Absolute Location
200
This type of weathering causes many caves to be formed as a result of of acidic water that dissolves rock.
What is Chemical Weathering
200
The Customs, politics and foods that make a place unique are called?
What are human characteristics
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The force that probably propels the movement of the earth's gigantic rock plates is?
What is Convection
200
Lakes and valleys have been carved out by
What are Glaciers
300
Half of the Globe! An equal division of Earth's surface into northern and southern halves or eastern and western halves.
What is a Hemisphere
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The theory that the earth's crust is broken into moving plates is called?
What is Plate Tectonics
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These regions are all about facts, they can be proven to exist, data can be collected about them: defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States, Countries, Cities), characterized by a common features (climate, language, political identity),
What are Formal Regions
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Third of the five themes of geography. The ways in which people change their environment, and are also changed by their environment Ex: Building Dams and canals for irrigation.
What is Human - Environment Interation
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Three Main Causes of Erosion
What is Water, Wind, and Glaciers
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This type of region has a use, it is defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. These regions have a center and are connected with the area around it by some form of transportation route. City Services: Water, Power,; Phone service Verizon v ATT, Service Areas: Free Delivery.
What are Functional Regions
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Surrounding the continent of Antarctica, at the southernmost tip of the world. It has the strongest average winds on the planet. Hint: Cold and Wet
What is the Southern Ocean
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An internal force that helps create new land forms.
What is Volcanism
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The center of the Earth is called the?
What is Core
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Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Fiji
Australasia or Oceania
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Imaginary line that divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres, it is me, An imaginary line passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which marks the 0° line of longitude. Which divides the Earth into the Eastern & Western Hemispheres
What is Prime Meridian
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Second of the five themes of geography. A geographical term that describes the physical and human characteristics of a location. Ex: land forms, vegetation, climate, languages, customs, beliefs
What is Place
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Land forms are commonly classified according to differences in?
What is Relief
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The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces
What is Weathering
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These are opinions about regions that reflect human feelings and attitudes about areas base on stereotypes, not facts. Dixie, Southern California, the "other side of tracks," a rough town,"
What are Perceptual Regions
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