5 Themes of Geography - M

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Cutting down trees to build houses is an example of which?

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Human-Environment Interaction

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What do we use to find absolute location?

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latitude and longitude

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A cultural region might have a common language.

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True

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What is movement?

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Tells us how people, goods, resources, and ideas move from one place to another

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The imaginary line that runs through the middle of the earth east and west is called?

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Equator

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What are the imaginary lines on a map called that tell absolute location?

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Latitude and Longitude

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When we describe a place by saying it has a beautiful lake and mountains, we are describing its

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Physical Characteristics

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The theme of geography that describes what it is like to live there using an area’s physical and human characteristics is

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Place

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What is climate?

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weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

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Climate is affected by many factors including: latitude, elevation, and proximity to bodies of water, tides and currents, wind

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latitude, elevation, and proximity to bodies of water