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LatitudeLongitude
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Earth/Sun
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Climate/ Weather
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Weathering/Erosion
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Human Geography 1
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Human Geography 2
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What are latitude lines?
Lines that measure North to South but run East to West.
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What are the two fixed points of reference for Longitude?
The International Dateline and the Prime Meridian
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What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
23.5 Degrees South latitude
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How far can you measure East or West of the Prime Meridian?
180 degrees.
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What is spatial perspective?
This is the perspective geographers use when studying the relationships between people and
their environment.
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Earth/Sun - 100
What is rotates?
This is what the earth does on it's axis
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What is revolution?
This is one elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun.
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What are solstices?
These are the two times a year that the poles are pointed at their furthest angle toward or
away from the sun
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Earth/Sun - 400
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The sun's direct rays strike the earth here during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
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Earth/Sun - 500
What are Tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic Circle, South Pole?
These are the three fixed points of reference for latitude in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Climate/Weather - 100
What is the rain shadow or leeward side?
This is the arid side of a mountain caused by the orographic effect.
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Climate/Weather - 200
What is tropical?
This is the climate with the most diverse ecosystems.
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Climate/Weather - 300
What is weather?
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
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Climate/Weather - 400
What is the orographic effect?
Mountains influence climate through this.
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Climate/Weather - 500
What is winter?
This is the season in which Mediterranean climates receive the most precipitation.
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Weathering/Erosion - 100
What are tectonic forces, erosion, and weathering?
These are the processes that create and shape landforms
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Weathering/Erosion - 200
What are glaciers?
These are formed when winter snows do not melt the following summer.
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Weathering/Erosion - 300
What are headwaters?
A watershed begins here.
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Weathering/Erosion - 400
What is hydrologic cycle?
This is the movement of water through the hydrosphere.
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Weathering/Erosion - 500
What are humus, subsoil, weathered rock, parent rock?
These are the layers of the soil horizon.
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Human Geography 1 - 100
What is monotheism?
This is the belief in one god.
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Human Geography 1 - 200
What is dialect?
This means, regional variety of a language.
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Human Geography 1 - 300
What is culture?
This is all the features of a peoples way of life.
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Human Geography 1 - 400
What is the increase in connections between cultures around the world?
Globalization.
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Human Geography 1 - 500
What is the spread of ideas from places of greater size and influence to smaller places?
Hierarchical Diffusion
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Human Geography 2 - 100
What is the number of babies born per 1,000 population?
Birth rate
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Human Geography 2 - 200
Who are refugees?
These are people who are forced out of their country and cannot return.
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Human Geography 2 - 300
What is the statistical study of human populations?
Demography.
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Human Geography 2 - 400
What is a movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established
principals and teachings?
Fundamentalism.
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Human Geography 2 - 500
What is acculturation?
When an individual adopts some of the traits of another culture.
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