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Chapter 1 Class Assignments
Geography, History, and the Social Sciences
Instructions:
Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use your Powerpoint
slides for Chapter 1 to answer the questions.
1. Why study geography? (Slide 2)
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2. What is geography? (Slide 3)
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3. What does a geographer look at? (Slide 3)
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4. What is a natural resource? (Slide 3)
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5. Give an example of a natural resource? (Slide 3)
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6. What is a map? (Slide 4)
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7. What is a globe? (Slide 4)
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8. What is a map projection? (Slide 5)
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9. What is a cartographer? (Slide 5)
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11. What are the four types of maps (Slide 6)
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12. What does a political map show? (Slide 7)
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13. What does a physical map show? (Slide 8)
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14. What does a population map show? (Slide 9)
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15. What does a natural resource map show? (Slide 10)
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16. What are the lines on a map measured in?
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17. What is a compass rose? (Slide 12)
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18. What directions are shown on a compass rose? (Slide 12)
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19. What are the lines on a compass rose that measure north to south
called? (Slide 12)
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20. The lines on a compass rose that measure east to west are called?
(Slide 13)
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21. What is the equator? What does the Equator divide the Earth
into?(Slide 14)
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22. What is the Prime Meridian? (Slide15)
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23. Why does time differ on the Earth from place to place? (Slide16)
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24. What is a standard time zone? What time zone do we live in?
(Slide17)
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25. Define the theme of location? (Slide18)
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26. Define the theme of place? (Slide19)
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27. How did people adapt their environment? (Slide20)
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28. Why did people move throughout the world? (Slide21)
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29. What is technology? (Slide21)
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30. What is a region? (Slide22)
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31. What is the mainland’s western most region called? (Slide23)
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32. What islands are found in the Pacific Coast. (Slide23)
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33. What is a mountain? (Slide24)
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34. What is a hill? (Slide25)
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35. What is a plain? (Slide26)
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36. What is a plateau? (Slide27)
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37. Which rivers make up the most important river system in the United
States? (Slide28)
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38. What is a tributary (tributaries)? (Slide28)
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39. What are the names of the Great Lakes? (Slide 30)
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40. What is weather? (Slide31)
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41. What is climate? (Slide31)
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42. What is precipitation? (Slide31)
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43. What is history? (Slide 32)
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44. What is a primary source? (Slide 33)
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45. What is a secondary resource? (Slide 34)
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46. What is the cartoonist on slide 34 trying to say? (Slide 35)
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47. What is authenticity? (Slide35)
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48. What is an artifact? (Slide36)
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49. What is archeology? (Slide36)
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50. What is an archeologist? (Slide36)
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51. What is culture? (Slide37)
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52. What is economics? (Slide38)
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53. What three basic questions do we ask about economics? (Slide38)
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54. What is a consumer? (Slide39)
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55. What is a cash economy? (Slide39)
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56 What is a free enterprise system? (Slide40)
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