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What are the world's seven masses?
Continents
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What is the dividing of the Earth into two equal halves?
Hemispheres
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What is vegetation?
The plant life of a certain area.
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What is digging for buried evidence?
Excavation
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What is the study of past events?
History
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What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place?
Weather
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What are the lines on a map that circle the Earth at its poles?
Longitude
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What are the three types of maps?
Physical, Politcal, Thematic
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What is the way of life shared by a group of people?
Culture
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What isWhat is an artifact created in a specific historical era?
Primary Source
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What is the typical weather at a particular place over a period of time?
Climate
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What is a measure of distance north or south of the equator?
Latitude
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What are the five themes of geography?
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement
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What is the recovery and study of physical evidence from the past?
Archaeology
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What is a person who studies and interprets the past?
Historian
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What is the study of Earth's features?
Geography
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What is the study of past events?
Cartography
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How did Ptolemy's works affect European mapmakers during the 1400s?
Ptolemy's work helped mapmakers produce more acccurate maps.
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What is an object made by a human?
Artifact
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What is a primary source that is spoken, such as stories passed from one generation to the next?
Oral History
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What is a feature on the Earth's land surface called?
Landform
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What is a way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable?
Projection
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What types of features are shown on a physical map?
Landforms and bodies of water.
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What is the study of humans and human cultures?
Anthropology
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What is a work produced about an event by someone who was not actually there?
Secondary Source
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