Test review for Physical environment
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| What is the study of earth's surface and processes that shape it? | show 🗑
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| What are the two types of Geography? | show 🗑
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| show | Where objects or feature are located on the earth's surface. ex. coastal areas, mountains, cities, fields.
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| show | The study of how objects, people, or ideas are or are not related across space.
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| What is Physical geography? | show 🗑
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| show | The spatial expressions of culture. ex population, literary, economics, ideas, language, and folklore.
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| List, in order, the steps of the scientific method. | show 🗑
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| What are the variables of the Earth System? | show 🗑
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| Before time zones, how did people keep track of time in different areas of the world? | show 🗑
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| How many degrees are time zones? and what is the only reason it would not be based on these degrees | show 🗑
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| What is the international date line located at? and why? | show 🗑
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| show | In grenwhich, england. England had a lot of political power, and everyone was already using them as 0 degrees longitude.
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| show | Measure East to west, lines run from north to south. 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
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| What is latitude? | show 🗑
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| What are the benefits of using a smaller map? | show 🗑
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| What is step one of the scientific method? | show 🗑
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| show | Hypothesis. restate the observation as a hypothesis
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| What is step 3 of the scientific method? | show 🗑
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| show | Test-use the technique to test hypothesis.
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| What is step 5 of the scientific method? | show 🗑
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| What is a map? | show 🗑
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| show | name/title, date, orientation device(Compass rose), scale, legends, location system(letter and number grid), data source and projection type
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| What is absolute location? | show 🗑
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| What is Relative location? | show 🗑
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| What are the 3 types of scales on a map? | show 🗑
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| show | The bar scale.
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| 90 degrees N | show 🗑
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| show | Arctic Circle
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| show | Tropic of cancer
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| show | Equator
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| show | South Pole
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| 66.5 degrees S | show 🗑
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| show | Tropic of capricorn
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| GPS uses a network of satellites to accurately determine ones location on earth's surface? True or false | show 🗑
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| show | It has a distortion
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| Discrete data is? | show 🗑
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| What's an example of continuous data? | show 🗑
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| Isolines are? | show 🗑
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| What is GIS? | show 🗑
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| show | A formula by which the intensity of insulation can be calculated by using the sun's zenith angle.
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| show | A man who in 240 BC used geometry and solar observations to make an accurate estimate of Earth's Circumference
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| show | The latitude at which the noon sun is directly overhead.
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