APHG Rub 1.2

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The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:

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absolute location

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The physical qualities of the original location for a city is referred to as the

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site

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The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as:

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GIS

Front

Measuring the distance people are willing to travel to shop at a store would be creating what type of region for that store?

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Functional

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Which of the following divides Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres? Prime Meridian, Hemisphere Line, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn

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Prime Meridian

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Imaginary North-South line that passes through Greenwich, England, and has a value of 0 degrees

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longitude

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A ___________ region, also called a uniform region, is an area within which everyone shares one or more distinctive characteristics.

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Formal

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T or F: Spatial thinking is the most fundamental skill that geographers possess.

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True

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What does GPS stand for?

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Global Positioning System

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a place name

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toponym