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| The mathematical location of a place on a map using latitude and longitude |
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| A pattern circling an area |
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| The people and the physical enviroment |
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| The problem of accurately displaying a three-dimensional object of a two-dimensional surface. |
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| The exact middle of the Earth, between the North and South Pole. |
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| A Greek scholar who accurately calculated the circumference of the Earth using Geometry. |
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| A Region with a certain trend within the region. |
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| Functional(nodal) Regions |
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| A region whose trend gets of less importance the farther from the center. |
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| Geographic Information System |
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| A trend spreading across the world. |
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| Global Positioning System |
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| Geography that focuses on people in a certain place. |
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| An 11th Arab scholar who made maps that were accurate at that time. |
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| The distance north or south of the equator. |
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| The position of something on Earth's surface. |
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| A 19th century geographer who focused on the interactions of humans to their environment, and emphasized on conserving the Earth. |
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| A type of map projection that was designed for navigating ships from the Atlantic Ocean Between Europe and the Americas |
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| Multi-National corporation |
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| A company that has headquarters in many parts of the world |
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| A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator |
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| Perceptual(Vernacular) Regions |
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| Regions that are places that people believe to be part of their cultural identity. |
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| A map that focuses on keeping the masses equal in the map. |
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| A specific point on Earth with human and physical characteristics that distinguish it from other points. |
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| Geography that focuses on the physical characteristics of a place. |
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| A Greek scholar who, after Eratosthenes, also calculated the circumference of the Earth, but was short of 9000 miles. |
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| The organization of Earth's surface into distinct areas that are viewed as different from other areas |
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| Another projection used for balancing all distortions by creating more errors. |
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| A man who believed that the interactions between humans and their environment should be the base of geography. |
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| The physical characteristics of a place |
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| The relativity to other similar places. |
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| The physical gap or distance between two objects. |
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| The way places and things are arranged and organized on the surface of the Earth. |
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| The name of a specific location |
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| A once-every-ten-years check-up on the population of the US. |
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| Explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs. |
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