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Geography Overview

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What is the study of the earth and life on it?Geography
What are the 5 themes of geography?Location, place, movement, human-environment interaction & region
What does a cartographer make?Maps
What phrase means the exact location using lines of latitude and longitude ?Absolute location
What term means using surroundings to describe location?Relative location
What are the imaginary north-south lines on a map?Longitude or meridians
What are the imaginary east-west lines on a map?Latitude or parallels
What is the name of 0 degrees longitude?Prime Meridian
What is the name of 0 degrees latitude?Equator
What is the name of 180 degrees longitude?International dateline
What is the northern line of latitude which marks the sun's highest point overhead in June?Tropic of Cancer
What is the southern latitude line which marks the sun's highest point overhead in December?Tropic of Capricorn
What is the geographic address of the North Pole?90 degrees north
What symbol conveys map orientation?The compass rose
What are the two basic branches of geography?Human geography and physical geography
What does a meteorologist study?Weather and climate
What does an environmental geographer study?The impact of life on natural resources

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