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Latitude Longitude 100 200 300 400 500 Earth/Sun 100 200 300 400 500 Climate/ Weather 100 200 300 400 500 Weathering/ Erosion 100 200 300 400 500 Human Geography 1 100 200 300 400 500 Human Geography 100 200 300 400 500 Jeopardy

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Jeopardy. Latitude Longitude. Earth/Sun. Climate/ Weather. Weathering/ Erosion. Human Geography 1. Human Geography 2. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Human Geography 1

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Jeopardy

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Lat/Long - 100

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What are latitude lines?

Lines that measure North to South but run East to West.

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Lat/Long - 200

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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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Lat/Long - 300

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What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

23.5 Degrees South latitude

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Lat/Long - 400

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How far can you measure East or West of the Prime Meridian?

180 degrees.

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Lat/Long - 500

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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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Earth/Sun - 200

What is revolution?

This is one elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun.

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Earth/Sun - 300

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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What is acculturation?

When an individual adopts some of the traits of another culture.