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What do you understand by the term geography?
Geography is the study of locations and distributions of phenomena and their interrelationships on Earth.
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How is geography like history?
Geography is like history because it's a meta discipline which is defined not by the phenomena studied, but by the spatial approach.
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What are some of the subfields of Physical Geography?
- Climatology (geography + meteorology)
- Biogeography (biology + geography)
- Geomorphology (geology + geography)
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What are the 3 major perspectives of geography?
environmental science, spatial science and physical science.
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absolute vs. relative location
absolute: is expressed by a coordinate system or address, whereas relative: is identified by where it is in relation to something else
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What are the implications of spatial: movements: and interactions: ?
spatial: interactions: are processes whereby different phenomena are interconnected, and, as a result impact one another through Earth space.
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Is Earth a dynamic or static system?
Dynamic
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What are Earth's 4 main subsystems?
- Atmosphere
- Biosphere
- Lithosphere
- Hydrosphere
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Is planet Earth an open or closed system?
It is essentially a closed system
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How many timezones exist?
24
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International Date Line - crossing it from which side do you lose a day?
Crossing it from west to east.
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GMT: stands for...
Greenwich Mean Time (Prime Meridian)
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UTC: stands for...
Universal Time Coordinated
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What are the 3 major types of map: projections: ?
- Cylindrical
- Polar/Plane
- Conic.
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