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10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geography and Map Skills Key Terms 5 Themes Of Geography Potpourri Something from Each area Natural Resources & Push - Pull 5 pt
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Knowing Canada’s location to the Equator, its climate tends to be hot or cold
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What is cold? Greenwich indicates the prime meridian, which is zero degrees longitude
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True/False Farming on mountain tops is usually successful
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What is false?
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Latin America is located in which East/West Hemisphere
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What is the Western Hemisphere?
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Three reasons it is difficult to grow crops on a mountain
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What are: -the mountain’s steep grade -the rocky soil -and cold climate?
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Where would it be generally colder, northern Brazil or southern Brazil Double it! Why would it be colder?
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What is Northern Brazil? Southern Brazil is nearly 55 degrees south of the equator and near the Antarctic. The most northern tip of Latin America is Mexico which borders the southwest USA, an area known for its deserts, at about 32 degrees north of the equator.
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The question for Key Terms: knowing Cape Horn’s location to the Equator, its climate tends to be hot or cold The question for Geography and Map Skills: knowing Canada’s location to the Equator, its climate tends to be hot or cold
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What is cold? Regions near the Equator have a tendency to be hot and rainy. It becomes colder as one travels away from the equator. Both Cape Horn and Canada are not near the equator and have colder climates. equator
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Either a compass rose or map key shows the symbols and colors used on a map. Bonus! Double the Point Value by explaining the purpose of the second map vocabulary.
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What is a Map Key?. Bonus answer: the compass rose shows direction of North, South, East and West.
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This theory helps geographers explain migration
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What is Push - Pull?
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Average weather over many years
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What is climate?
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This is the term used to mean half the world
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What is hemisphere? W E
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This is what geographers learn when they study human-environment interaction
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What is how people and the environment affect each other?
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This theme of Geography means the physical or human features at a specific location.
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What is Place ?
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This theme of Geography groups places with a unifying theme.
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What are regions?
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This theme of Geography explains how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.
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What are Jamestown: What is Movement?
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This theme of Geography shows where something is according to directions or latitude and longitude.
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What is location?
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Large number of people in Latin America leave the countryside for the city in order to do this
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What is to give their children opportunities not available in their region?
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When reading a map, it means “loss of accuracy”
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What is distortion?
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Of plateau, desert or the plains, the landform which would have the least number of people living in it
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What is a desert?
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The forced movement of people from one region to another
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What is involuntary migration?
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This climate region covers the most territory in northern, South America (Moving north from 10 degrees south latitude)
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What is tropical wet?
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Harrisburg located between these two lines of longitude This natural resource covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface
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What is water?
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2 reasons it is not a good idea to only rely on non- renewable resources
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North America Asia What are: They cannot be replaced They pollute the environment They are costly and often the source of unrest in the world?
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Meaning of Fossil Fuels
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What are non-renewable resources like coal, oil and natural gas?
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Which two lines of latitude is Easton located in between Two Examples of a Renewable Resource
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What are -wind -water (hydroelectric) -geothermal -and solar? And there are more!
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Three reasons to be pulled to a new region or location
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What are better schools Better medical facilities Safe neighborhoods Better housing Peace in the country Religious freedom Find better jobs?
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