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1. A place's exact location such as it coordinates in latitude and longitude on Earth?
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c. place
b. regions
a. absolute location
d. location
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2. An imaginary line of zero degrees that runs from North to South is called.
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a. grid
c. prime meridian
b. latitude
d. hemisphere
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1. A place's exact location such as it coordinates in latitude and longitude on Earth?
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2. An imaginary line of zero degrees that runs from North to South is called.
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3. An imaginary line of zero degrees that runs from east to west and splits the Northern and Southern hemispheres is called.
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4. Which is an example of how nature plays a role in shaping regions?
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5. Which is an example of how culture creates regions?
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6. Which is the largest city in the United States?
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7. Name the 2nd largest continent. It has 47 countries; the largest river (the Nile); the largest desert (the Sahara).
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8. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world is located in which continent?
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9. Which continent has the largest river in volume the Amazon; the highest waterfall Angel Falls; and the largest rain forest , the Amazon?
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10. Which continent is considered the 3rd largest; is 2 times the size of Europe; makes the highest amount of income per person world wide?
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11. Vasco Da Gama also brought ______ and other goods such as porcelain, incense, ______and ______.
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12. Portugal also brought millions of enslaved ______ to ______.
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13. ________ showed that it was possible to sail completely around the world.
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14. Spain began settlements in ________ and earned great wealth.
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15. Ships brought _______ and ________ to Spain, and these crops grew well in Europe.
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16. Many native people became ____ for the Spanish or ________ from European _________.
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17. Henry Hudson was important to _____ and European exploration because he tried to find a _____ through North America to the Pacific Ocean.
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18. Europeans set up a number of ________ in North America.
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19. John Cabot was important to English explorations because he made England's first _______ and first ------- in the New World.
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20. Hernan Cortes was important to Spanish explorations because he defeated the ________
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21. The Colombian Exchange is _____________________________________.
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22. How many continents does the World have?
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23. A place's location in relation to another place is it's _____________________________.
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24. Where did Europeans immigrants go first, before going to New York City?
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25. What is the continent you live in?
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26. Name the continent that has 70% of the earth's fresh water in its ice, and reaches a cold temperature of -129 F degrees, making it the coldest on Earth?
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27. Which continent is all of these, the largest island in the world; the smallest of the continents; two-thirds desert?
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28. Which map tool shows directions such as North (N), South (S), East (E), West (W), Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Northwest (NW), Southwest (SW)?
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29. Europeans of this time had several _____ for exploring the world such as finding gold, achieving glory, and sharing their faith (religion).
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30. The Spanish carried diseases that caused deadly _________ an outbreak of a contagious disease which spread quickly and over a wide geographic area,, among the Aztecs.