Test notes

What is a place?- the unique location of a feature

What is a region?- Area of unique characteristics

Why is cultural landscape?-combination of both physical and human characteristics that uniquely define an area.

What does the prime meridian go through?
Greenwich

Time zones: 27

Who proposed a a world wide system of time zones in 1879?
Sir Sanford Fleming

1What is one state that most of the time votes republican? Texas
2Who proposed a work wide system of time zones in 1879?   Sir sanford Flemming
3How many regions in the United States?  5
4What continent is the biggest on a Peter's Map? A mercator? P=Africa M=Asia
5EXTRA CREDIT: what does GPS stand for? Global Positioning System 
6what is the science of at and map making? Cartography
7What is cultural landscape?

8What degree is the equator? The prime meridian? E= 0 PM=0
9.What is globilizaition? globalization is a force or a process that involve the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
10.give an example of thinking locally and acting global and is it affectie.
11.Why is each point on earth unique.
12.texa vote republican all 3 times
13.What is a geographic cooderniate system.   a system used for every point on earth to be graphed.

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