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What is the line that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
equator
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What is the type of location that tells exactly where something is?
absolute location
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What is the average weather in a place over a long period of time?
climate
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What means to leave one's home and live in another place?
emigrate
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What is an import?
a good brought in from another country
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What is another name for mapmaker?
cartographer
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What are the three ways that people interact with their environment?
depend, adapt, modify
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What ocean has the most earthquakes and volcanoes?
Pacific
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What means to enter and live in a new country?
immigrate
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What is an export?
a good sent to another country
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What is the main disadvantage of maps?
distortion
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What are the two types of characteristics that describe place?
physical and human
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How long does it take plate movement to create landforms?
millions of years
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What is the main reason people choose to settle in an area?
resources to meet their needs
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What is a measure of what is produced and what is required to produce it?
productivity
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What element of a map shows direction?
compass rose
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What are the three main things that move from place to place?
people, ideas, and goods
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What force has caused the fastest change on earth's surface in recent years?
human action
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What is the type of government ruled by a king or queen?
monarch
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What type of economy distributes resources mainly through families?
Traditional economy
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What type of map shows specialized information about a place?
thematic map
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What is type of map shows region?
thematic map
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What type of map tells ho far above or below a location is?
elevation map
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What is the type of government the United States has?
representative democracy
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In what type of economy are the means of production privately owned?
market economy (capitalism)
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