Definition of geography

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_____________________________What are ways of expressing absolute location?
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______________________________What are the properties of these?
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______________________________If it is _____ (time) in one place, what time is it in another
place? (Remember that time zones change every 15 degrees of longitude. Places to
the east are later. Places to the west are earlier.
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_____________________________What is Greenwich Mean Time?
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The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance
methods is known as ________________.
The name given to a place is _____________.
Know all of the different types of diffusion
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______________________________The four spheres of Earth science / Earth systems
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______________________________Site
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______________________________Situation
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______________________________Scale
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______________________________Distance, both absolute and relative
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_____________________________Map scale, representative fractions

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Five themes of geography
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______________________________Six basic elements of weather and climate
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______________________________Earth-sun geometry, sun angle / angle of incidence, what part of the
Earth receives direct rays of the sun, amount of insolation, equinoxes, solstices, tilt of the Earths axis
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______________________________Two types of tectonic forces
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______________________________Water vapor, humidity, relative humidity
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______________________________Differences of temperature according to position on Earth
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______________________________The deflection of wind and any other object moving above Earth's
rotating surface is called the ________. __________ is a shifting zone between the Tropics of Cancer and
Capricorn where surface winds converge.
Different types of rock, properties, and characteristics.
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______________________________Plate tectonics
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______________________________ Earthquake scale
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______________________________Earthquake characteristics, details
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______________________________Different types of diastrophism
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______________________________Watersheds
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______________________________Shoreline processes
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________ are rivers of ice that flow from places where snow accumulates yearly to warmer places where
they melt.
Law of conservation of energy
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When water vaporizes from a liquid to a gas, the water ___________ energy?
In the carbon cycle, carbon in the form of atmospheric carbon dioxide is incorporated into carbohydrates in
plant tissues through __________.
___________ is added to the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels
Nitrogen cycle
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Producers, consumers, decomposers, bioaccumulation, bio magnification

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