The word geography comes from the Greek, meaning ________

A) the study of rocks
B) description of Earth
C) planet measurement
D) drawing of maps
E) the study of human culture


Answer: B

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a. Two b. Four c. Six d. Eight e. Ten

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Spanish and French

A) emerged from Arabic. B) are mutually intelligible: if you speak one you can understand the other. C) are related to Hindi, Farsi, Greek and other Indo-European languages. D) used to be spoken across all of Europe.

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When mountains cool rapidly at night, air flows into valleys, creating a ________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Why do large regions of continental crust stand high above sea level?

A) ?The rigid asthenosphere allows the thicker continental crust to stand high above oceanic crust. B) ?Oceanic crust squeezes continental crust so that it continuously stands high above sea level. C) ?The continent's mountains float high above sea level because the lithosphere gradually sinks into the deformable asthenosphere until it has displaced a volume of asthenosphere equal to their mass. D) ?The uppermost mantle is thicker beneath continental crust than it is beneath oceanic crust allowing large regions of continental crust to stand high above sea level.

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