Geography Concepts and Definitions

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What is density in geography?

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the frequency which something occurs

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What are the 7 continents?

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Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America

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What are Latitude lines?

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east to west

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What are longitude lines?

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north to south

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What does GPS stand for?

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Global Positioning System

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Which of the following is not true of culture?
Culture is a set of behaviors that define a group of people,
Culture is set of customs that define a group of people,
Culture is biologically inherited,
Culture is a set of beliefs that define a group of people.

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Culture is biologically inherited.

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What is the ability to travel and communicate over greater distances in shorter amounts of time, due to technological innovations such as the airplane, automobile, telephone, and internet, represents the idea of?

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time, space, compression

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Time, space, and compression represent the idea that the ability to travel and communicate over greater distances in shorter amount of time are due to technological innovations such as what?

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all of the choices are correct

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Processes of globalization are most closely associated with which of the following forms of socioeconomic organization? Absolute, Global Positioning System, prime meridian

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capitalism

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What is the zero longitude line called?

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Prime Meridien