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Where are these religions generally located?
Buddhism:
Christianity:
Hinduism:
Islam:
Judaism:
- Buddhism: southeast Asia and parts of china
- Christianity: North& South America, Southern Africa, Australia, Europe and Northern Asia
- Hinduism: India
- Islam: Northern Africa and Middle East Asia
- Judaism: Israel
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What continents are mostly Catholic?
South America
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How does latitude and longitude work? What do they measure?
- They create an imaginary grid around the earth and give precise location of where something is.
- They measure the angular distances on earth in degrees
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How do Literacy rate, Infant Mortality, and Per capita GDP pertain to a country's level of development.
An More Developed Country would have a high literacy rate, low infant mortality rate, and a high per capita GDP.
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Shows different symbols and colors used on the map and their meanings.
Legend/Key
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the action of giving misleading account or impression
distorted
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Points to North, East, South and West
Compass Rose
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A map on which statistical information is shown in diagrammatical form
Cartogram
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An estimate or forecast of the future situation or trend based on a study of present ones
Projection
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Determines real distance between points
scale
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An arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
Topography
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difference between Formal, Functional, and Perceptual regions.
- Formal: areas like countries, cities, states, and countries. - can be proven of presence.
- Functional: Different places linked together and function as a unit
- Perceptual: Reflect human feelings or attitudes
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7 continents
- Europe
- Asia
- Antarctica
- north America
- south America
- Africa
- Australia
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What does the HDI tell us.
What affects a country's HDI.
- The ranking of level of development in a country.
- the development of the country
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What is geography
the study of both human and physical geography
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human-environment interactions?
how a person interacts that impact their environment.
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what is the prime meridian and equator
- prime meridian: line of longitude that is at 0 degrees
- Equator: line of latitude that is at 0 degrees
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human geography:
Physical geography:
- study of people in their environments, where they live, how they act, and trade
- landforms, and physical geo
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where is the Sahara Desert?
where are most deserts located?
- Africa
- 30 degrees latitude
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what continent is Russia on
both Europe and Asia
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what latitudes(low/mid/high)are associated with which climates?
what latitude do most people live on?
- low: hot
- Mid: warm
- High: cold
mid
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why is the panama canal so important?
it shortens the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and avoids violent seas like Cape Horn.
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what does a topography map show?
show contour lines that connect parts at the same latitude, and shows elevation/steepness of the man-made or natural physical feature.
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