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Thinking Geographically
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THIS IS
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With Host... Your
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100 200 300 400 500 Where Are We? Location, location, location Measure- ments The Result is... Hodge Podge A Hodge Podge B
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Located at 0 degrees latitude. A 100
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What is the equator? A 100
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GMT is measured from the... A 200
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What is the Prime Meridian or 0 degrees longitude? A 200
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Lines of latitude converge at these places. A 300
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What are the North and South Poles?
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Low-lying coastal reefs off the coast of Florida. A 400
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What are the Barrier Islands or Keys? A 400
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A region from which a phenomenon originates. A 500
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What is a hearth? A 500
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The acquiring of information about the Earth’s surface from an orbiting satellite. B 100
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What is remote sensing? B 100
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A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data. B 200
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What is GIS? B 200
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Name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface. B 300
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What is toponym? B 300
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An area distinguished by one or more unique characteristics. B 400
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What is a region? B 400
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A piece of land created by draining an area. B 500
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What is a polder? B 500
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The time and day in California if it is 1:00 AM on Sunday in Florida. C 100
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What is 10 PM on Saturday? C 100
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Of the following, it has the largest scale: world, continent, state, or city. C 200
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What is city? C 200
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The 1:24,000 is an example of this type of scale. C 300
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What is a fractional scale? C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
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If the scale of a map is 1:36,000, then 1 inch on the map represents ___________ Feet on Earth’s surface. C 400
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What is 3,000? C 400
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Time changes by one hour at this increment of longitudinal degree. C 500
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What is every 15 degrees? C 500
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The idea that the distribution of one phenomenon is scientifically related to the location of other phenomenon. D 100
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What is spatial association? D 100
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The frequency of something within a given unit of area. D 200
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What is density? D 200
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The spread of something over a given study area. D 300
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What is concentration? D 300
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This occurs when a group of people migrated from Papua New Guinea to North America and adopt Western cultural habits. D 400
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What is acculturation? D 400
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This development has enhanced the global movement of money. D 500
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What are electronic communications/technology? D 500
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First person to use the word geography. E 100
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Who was Eratosthenes? E 100
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The science of making maps. E 200
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What is cartography? E 200
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Divided much of the U.S. into townships, ranges, and sections. E 300
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What is the U.S. Land Ordinance of 1785? E 300
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The type of diffusion illustrated with the swine flu. E 400
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What is contagious diffusion? E 400
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This word means to “care about” and “to take care”. E 500
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What is culture? E 500
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Concept that the human environment limits human actions. F 100
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What is environmental determinism? F 100
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G____________ of the economy has heightened economic differences among places. F 200
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What is globalization? F 200
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The spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is this type of diffusion. F 300
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What is hierarchal diffusion? F 300
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The area of Maryland in which are found high rates of cancer. F 400
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What are the eastern rural areas? F 400
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The International Date line is measured from here. F 500
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What is 180 degrees longitude? F 500
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The Final Jeopardy Category is: Environmental Impact Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
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The rechanneling of the Kissimmee River in Florida had several adverse environmental impacts. Name two of them. Click on screen to continue
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What are 1) runoffs from cattle grazing 2) disruption of wildlife habitats 3) pollution of drinking water? (name 2 to get credit) NOT flooding Click on screen to continue
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