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What is the term for personal understading of the world based on individual experiences?
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Perspective
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What is the term for a geographer's point of view that looks at where something is and why it is there?
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Spatial Perspective
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What is the term for a science that describes the physical and cultural feature of the Earth?
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Geography
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What kids of geographers work to understand world issues and the conenctions between eventssuch as threatened oil supplies?
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Global
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Name the 5 themes of geography?
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Location, Human Enviorment Interaction movement region place
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Name the 6 essential elements of geography
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Thw rold in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, enviorment and society, the uses of Geography
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What is the term that defines an exact spot on Earth?
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Absolute location
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What is the term that describes the position of a place in realtion to another place?
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Relative Location
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Which of the six elements study how earthquakes, mountains, rivers, weather, patters, etc. have affected Earth's characteristics, and how plants and animals relate to these, and are distributed on Earth?
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Physical Systems
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What is the term for people and ideas going from one place to another?
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Movement
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What is the term for the movement of ideas or behavioirs from one region to another?
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Diffusion
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Which of the six elements do numbers 10 and 11 above descibe?
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Human Systems
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Which of the six elements helps us plan for the future most effectively?
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The Uses of Geography
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What kind og geography studies the difference in kind of governments?
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Political Geographer
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What kind of geographer studies the exchange of goods and services across Earth?
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Economic Geographer
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