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| Globe- Spherical; it can show how the world really is, a map does not. Map- a flat drawing that shows all or part of the earth's surface. Maps show all sorts of information, globes just show where things are. |
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| Geography as a Science and Geography as a Social Science |
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| As a Science: Observe, measure, and view satellite images. As a Social Science: A field that studies people and the relationships among them. |
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| Identify and explain the three categories in which Geographers look at the world. Rank them in size from largest to smallest and smallest to largest. |
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| Local Level: How do people in a town or community live. Regional Level: A part of the world that has one or more common features that distinguish it from surrounding areas. Global Level: How people interact globally. |
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| The study of the weather and what causes it. |
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| The science of making maps. |
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| The Earth spinning on its imaginary axis is known as |
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| Approximately how long does it take earth to rotate one time? |
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| Earth's rotation gives us _ and _. |
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| Earth's movement around the sun is known as a |
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| How long does it take Earth to revolve one time around the sun? |
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| The addition of an extra day in February every 4 years is known as _ year. |
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| Earth's tilt toward or away from the sun gives us our _. |
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| When a hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, it is _ (season) and the other hemisphere, which is tilted away, is experiencing _ (season). |
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| The _ refers to a region close to the equator where seasons are more tied to the amount of rainfall than to the temperature. |
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| _ of the Earth's surface is covered with water. |
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| _% of the Earth's water is salt water. |
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| Most freshwater is found _. |
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| in lakes, rivers, and underground. |
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| Water can be found in which three forms: _, _, and _. |
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| When water heats up, it _ and turns into _. |
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| What are clouds made of? _ |
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| What are water droplets that fall to Earth called? |
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| The process of evaporation and precipitation is called the _ _. |
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| What is another name for Earth's surface? |
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| The theory of _ _ suggests that Earth's surface is divided into a dozen or so slow moving tectonic plates. |
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| _ and _ are two examples of landforms formed when tectonic plates collide. |
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| When ocean plates collide, they create _ _. |
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| When ocean plates and continental plates collide, they form _. |
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| When two continental plates collide, they form _. |
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| When two plates slide past each other they cause _. |
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| Two forces that wear away landforms are _ and _. |
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