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Cartography
Which branch of geography focuses on the patters and interactions of human, both
material and non-material, in relation to the natural environment and the human
organization of space?
Cultural geography
He is an Italian explorer and his curiosity and desire to trade has led to the age of
discovery.
Marco Polo
It studies how political, social, and economic systems are organized across geographical
space.
Human geography
Quantitative methods
This is a powerful database that collect all types of information like maps, statistics,
satellite images, and more through computerized systems is allows to have a precise
calculation of how things are distributed and relate to one another.
Geographic information system (GIS)
Geomatics
What branch of geography that studies the transportation, migration, housing, and
language use?
Regional geography
Chinese
Latin America
The following statements are true about “culture takes years to form,” except.
Culture is essential for the community to develop and grow.
When a group of people share values, practices, and beliefs, this is known as _______.
Culture
A characteristic of culture that gives us an identity. Example art and history that we are
proud of, the literature we learn from, our education, and our upbringing shapes our
personalities.
Culture is essential
An element of culture, that constitute a society’s material objects, like clothing, huts, and
few tools.
Artifacts
Which characteristic of culture that talks about the importance of knowing the past that
has shaped your present and is going to influence your future?
Economics
An element of culture that stands for something else and that often evoke various
reactions and emotions.
Symbols
A small community of people who share beliefs, experiences, customs, traits, and values
can best be described as a _______.
Local culture
It is a set of beliefs or behavior being passed down within a group or society with
symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Tradition
What keeps the Earth in its orbit?
The Sun’s gravitational pull
It is a circumstellar distance in the outer solar system, extended from the orbit of
Neptune?
Kuiper Belt
The crust of the earths surface can be divided into seven pieces, called?
Continents
The smallest planet in the solar system, can be seen at night, and it is much like our
moon because of its rocky surface.
Mercury
Earth
In our solar system, the planets known as the giant planets are also known as the outer
planets?
True
Earth
1/4
Which two planets are out of order in this list of our solar system - The planets are listed
in order of distance from the sun. Mercury-Earth-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-
Neptune-Pluto?
23 hr and 56 min
It represents the time taken by the earth where it rotates 360 degrees relative to fix stars
in the sky?
Sidereal Day
These are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the sun when
frozen they are the size of a small town?
Comets
They created a 12-month calendar that was based in the phases of the moon?
Babylonians
It is considered as the dwarf planet, and in 2006 it is not considered as part of the nine
planets in the solar system?
Pluto
Another gas giant planet, and it is composed of many rings, not very dense?
Saturn
A group of planets consist of the four rocky terrestrial planets such as Mercury, Venus,
Earth and Mars?
Inner Planets
It is the home of the dwarf planets and other small planet-like bodies?
Kuiper Belt
What do objects that have more mass also have more of?
gravity
These are minor planets rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be
called planets?
Asteroids
It is the largest planet in the solar system and it is one of the gas giants, and has 67
moons.
Jupiter
These are giant planets composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and
helium such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and sulfur?
Ice Giant
The four inner planets are rocky and small. Which description best fits the next four
outer planets?
gravity
It is known as the red planet because of its iron oxide, it is cold and rocky with a thin
atmosphere made of carbon dioxide and oxygen?
Mars
It is the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's
appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night?
Milky Way
Eight
The correct ascending order of distance of planets from the sun is?
It is a predicted collection of icy objects farther away than everything else in the solar
system?
Oort Cloud
It is the twin planet of the earth; it is the hottest planet in the solar system?
Venus
A celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are
required for it to be classified as such?
Asteroids
This star is so important for natural navigation of which this star sits directly over the
north pole.
Polaris
How long does it take the earth to orbit around the sun?
365.25 days
The following is called dwarf planet?
Pluto
It represents the time it takes for the earth to rotate abouts its axis so that the sun
appears in the same position in the sky?
Solar Day
The majority of asteroids are found in a belt located between what two planets?
Mars and Jupiter