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What are North and South America?
These two continents lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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What is geography?
This is the study of where people, places, and thing are located and how they relate.
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What is relative location?
"I sit two seats to the left of Alivia" is an example of this form of location. (daily double! maximum wager of 1000)
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What is the core?
The center of the earth is called this.
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What is New Madrid, Missouri?
This is the location of the early 19th-century earthquake that made the Mississippi run backwards and rang church bells in Philadelphia.
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What is Asia?
This is the largest continent.
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What is culture?
The learned behavior of people, including their belief systems, languages, and governments is called this.
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What are north and south?
Longitude runs these two directions.
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What is the mantle?
This layer of the earth is between the crust and the core.
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What is (extremely hot parts of) the mantle?
Tectonic plate boundaries are at the root of tsunamis, earthquake, and volcanic eruptions; these plates float, grind, and collide on what?
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What is the Arctic Ocean?
This ocean borders all major oceans except the Indian Ocean.
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What is ranging?
The three words combined to form "sonar" are sound, navigation, and this word.
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What are Europe, Africa, and Antarctica?
The prime meridian runs through three continents. Name two.
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What is the atmosphere?
This is layer of air and water above the surface of the earth.
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What is the Dirty Thirties?
The Dust Bowl ravaged the plains states in the 1930s due to drought, mechanization of agriculture, and the destruction of native species; what other term is used to refer to the Dust Bowl?
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What is Iceland?
This country lies on the divergent boundary of the North American and Eurasian plates.
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What is character of a place?
This is a place's physical and human characteristics.
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What is absolute location?
37 degrees, 5 minutes, 3 seconds north, 94 degrees, 30 minutes, 47 seconds West is this type of location.
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What is 70%?
Earth's surface is at least this percent water.
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What are pollutants (in the air)?
Water vapor combining with this leads to chemical weathering. (daily double! maximum wager of 1000!)
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What is Pangea?
German geographer and theoritician Alfred Wegener developed the hypothesis that all continents were once part of a "supercontinent" named this.
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What is location, place, region, movement, and human-environment interaction?
Name at least four of geography's five themes.
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What is a perceptual region?
A region that is defined by people's feelings and attitudes is this type of region.
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What is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?
This is the name of the man-made, 40,000 ft deep hole in eastern Russia.
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What are moraines?
These are ridge-like piles of rock and debris left behind by glaciers.
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