First test covers Chapters 1 and 2

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Chapter 1

• First test covers Chapters 1 and 2

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• Geography
• study of everything
• landforms, politics, culture, weather, economics,
  and how they effect people.
• Perspective
• How we interpret
• Landscape
• What is looked at to determine perspective.
• 2. Physical, human, cultural scenery.

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• Five Themes of Geography
• Location
• a. Absolute exact. Street address or
  latitude and longitude
• b. Releative interaction of places. Over
  the hill and past the paved road
• Place
• a. Area with characteristics that give
  meaning.
• b. Physical weather, plants, etc.

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• c. Humanculture, religion, etc.
• Human/Environment Interaction
• a. How people interact with environment
• b. Change dams, excavate
• c. Adapt
• Movement
• a. Transport goods
• b. Move ideas through media
• c. Makes cultures dependent

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How are we interdependent?
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• Region
• a. Area defined by physical or cultural
  characteristics
• b. Divide places to study
• c. Functional-area organized around a
  focal point or node.
• Nodeeconomic importance transportation or
  media.
• d. Perceptualbased on perceptions or
  personal impressions.

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Midwest?
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Northeast?
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Megalopolis
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South?
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• Section 2
• The Globe
• Grid-lines circling the globe in east/west or
  north/south directions.
• Latitude and longitude
• 2. Latitude
• a. Measures north and south
• b. Run east and west
• c. Equator is center. 0º latitude

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• d. 90º North and South Pole
• e. Parallels
• Longitude
• a. Measure east and west
• b. Run north and south
• c. Prime Meridian is the center 0º
  Longitude. Runs through Greenwich, England and
  North and South Poles

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• d. 0 to 180º East and West
• e. Meridians
• Hemispheres-halves
• Equator divides the world into Northern and
  Southern
• Prime Meridian into east and west
• Greenwich, England.
• 7 Continents
• Asia
• Africa

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• South America
• North America
• Antarctica
• Europe
• Austraila

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Latitude and Longitude

• Page 88
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Los Angeles
• Philadelphia
• Chicago

• 19N 99W
• 34N 118W
• 40N 75W
• 42N 88W

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• Page 138
• Sao Paulo
• Caracas
• Lima
• Page 154
• Paris
• Dublin

• 23½S 46W
• 10N 65W
• 12S 76W
• 48N 2E
• 53N 6W

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• Page 228
• Freetown
• Luanda
• Tripoli
• Page 194
• Tehran
• Mumbai

• 9N 12W
• 9S 13E
• 32N 12E
• 36N 51E
• 19N 73E

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Time Zone

• 10am Sydney, what time in Capetown?
• 2am
• 3pm Anchorage, what time in Greenland?
• 9pm
• 7pm in Edmonton, what time in London?
• 2am
• 4am Beijing, what time in Moscow?
• 11pm

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Time ZoneUsing International Date Line

• Los Angeles Tuesday 8am, what day/time in
• Beijing?
• Wednesday 12am
• Ramsey Thursday 12pm, what day/time in Sydney?
• Friday 3am
• Chicago Sunday 8pm, what day/time in Tokyo?
• Monday 11am.

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Time ZoneUsing International Date Line

• Bangkok Tuesday 1pm, what day/time in Ramsey?
• Monday 1am
• Perth Saturday 1am, what day/time in Brasilia?
• Friday 2pm

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