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| 14800868705 | Functional Region | examples of transportation communication systems | 0 | |
| 14800890774 | ancient Greeks | thales of miletus, applied principles of geometry to measuring land area | 1 | |
| 14800897746 | The muslim world | Muhammad prepared a world map and geography text | 2 | |
| 14800906245 | China | pei xiu produced an elaborate map of the couty | 3 | |
| 14800915886 | geotagging | the location of all the information we gather and photos we take are recorded | 4 | |
| 14800923483 | three examples of gis storing layers of data | boundaries of countries, roads, and names of places | 5 | |
| 14800928934 | gi science | allows geographers to calculate whether relationships are significant or coincidental. | 6 | |
| 14800951552 | three ways a map scale can be presented | ratio, written, graphic | 7 | |
| 14800958674 | advantages of the Mercator | shape is distorted very little and direction is consistent and the map is rectangular | 8 | |
| 14800976332 | disadvantage of the Mercator | relative size is grossly distorted towards the poles, making high altitiude places much higher than they actually are | 9 | |
| 14801126603 | disadvantages of the robinson | land areas are much smaller | 10 | |
| 14801129497 | advantages of the robinson | relative size is grossly distorted toward the poles making high altitude making places look much higher than they actually are | 11 | |
| 14801236665 | international date line | move clock back 24 hours | 12 | |
| 14801265233 | what does globalization threaten | local culture beliefs social customs may be threated | 13 | |
| 14801290705 | Poststructuralist Geography | emphasizes the need to understand multiple perspectives regarding space | 14 | |
| 14801292474 | Humanistic Geography | The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings. | 15 | |
| 14801296175 | behavioral geography | the study of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space | 16 | |
| 14801299519 | core peripheral model | people in peripheral regions produce crops for sale in core regions and migrated to cities in search of jobs | 17 | |
| 14801320571 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another for ex: migrate for politics | 18 |