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This is the science of mapmaking. A 100
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What is cartography? A 100
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This Greek scholar invented the word “geography.” A 200
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Who was Eratosthenes? A 200
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This is the level of detail and the amount of area covered on a map. A 300
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What is map scale? A 300
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This type of map grossly distorts relative size of land masses at the poles. A 400
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What is a Mercator Projection? A 400
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This the arc drawn between the North and South poles. Also known as longitude. A 500
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What is a meridian? A 500
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This is time at the prime meridian and is the master reference time for all points on Earth. B 100
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What is Greenwich Mean Time? B 100
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This is the acquisition of data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting Earth. B 200
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What is remote sensing? B 200
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This is the physical character of a place including climate, water sources, and topography. B 300
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What is a site? B 300
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This type of region exists as part of the people’s cultural identity. For example, the South is defined by certain cultural aspects. B 400
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What is a vernacular region? B 400
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This is the force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope. B 500
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What is globalization? B 500
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The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time. C 100
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What is diffusion? C 100
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This the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. C 200
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What is contagious diffusion? C 200
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This is the phenomenon where contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears. C 300
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What is distance decay? C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
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This is composed of all living organisms here on Earth. C 400
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What is a biotic system? C 400
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According to this idea, the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the environment. C 500
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What is possibilism? C 500
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This type of map illustrates the concentrations of the world’s populations D 100
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What is a cartogram? D 100
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This is the portion of Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement. D 200
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What is ecumene? D 200
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This is the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land. D 300
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What is physiological density? D 300
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This is the percentage by which a population grows in a year. D 400
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What is natural increase rate? D 400
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This is used to measure the number of births in a society, the average number of children a woman will have during child- bearing years. D 500
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What is total fertility rate? D 500
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This is the number of people who are too young or too old to work in a society. E 100
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What is dependency ratio? E 100
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This is the process of change in a society’s population from high CBR and CDR and low NIR to a condition of low CBR and CDR. E 200
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What is demographic transition? E 200
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This is the point at which CBR declines to where it equals CDR and NIR approaches zero. E 300
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What is zero population growth? E 300
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This theory states that population grows geometrically whereas food supply increases arithmetically. E 400
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What is Malthusian Theory? E 400
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This event in history would bring some countries out of Stage 1 of the demographic transition model. E 500
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What is Industrial Revolution? E 500
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This focuses on the distinctive health threats in each stage of the demographic transition model. F 100
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What is epidemiologic transition? F 100
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This measures the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live at current mortality levels. F 200
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What is life expectancy? F 200
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This is a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. F 300
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What is a pandemic? F 300
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This was a disease that affected 14 th century Europe and killed one-third of the population. F 400
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What is the Black Plague? F 400
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These are the types of diseases that predominately affect Stage 3 and 4 of the demographic transition model. F 500
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What are cardio-vascular disease and cancer? F 500
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Germany’s promise to end unrestricted submarine warfare during WWI Click on screen to continue
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