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1. What does "Geo" stand for?

2. The study of everything on earth is called what?
3. What do geographers use to study the earth?
4. How is a country's border determined?
5. How is a continents boundary defined?
6. What is the equator?
7. What is the prime meridian?
8. How many themes of Geography are there?
a. What are they?
9. What is the difference between Human and Physical Characteristics?
10. How many parts of a map are there?
b. What are they?
11. What do latitude lines measure?
c. What direction do they go?
12. What do longitude lines measure?
d. What direction do they go?
13. How many continents are there? How many oceans?
14. What is the largest continent and ocean?
15. What is an example of relative location?

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1. Earth

2.Geography

3.Maps, globes, atlases, aerial photographs, satellite photographs, information graphics, and a computer program called GIS

4.Borders are established through agreements between political or social entities that control those areas

5. (Can't really help with this, unless this helps) The continent-ocean boundary or continent-ocean transition is the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust on a passive margin.

6. An imaginary line across the center of the earth going horizontally

7. An imaginary line across the center of the earth going vertically

8. Five

8a. Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions

9. Natural things found in the environment are known as the physical characteristics of a place. These are things in an environment that humans did not make and the other items found in the environment are known as human characteristics. These are things that have been added by people.

10. Five

10a. a Title, a Legend, a Grid, a Compass Rose, and a Scale

11. Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator

11a. horizontal

12. Longitude is the measurement of distance west or east of the Prime meridian

12a. vertical

13. Seven continents and 4-5 oceans. Most countries recognize the Southern (Antarctic) as the fifth ocean basin, though not everyone.

14. Asia and the Pacific Ocean

15. The location of the US Capitol is located about 38 miles southwest of Baltimore

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