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Second Continental Congress - ✔✔A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started

meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Managed the Colonial war effort and moved

incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4,

1776.


Townshend Acts (1767) - ✔✔A series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British

American colonies in North America.


Thirteen Colonies - ✔✔A group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th

and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.


Azimuthal Projection - ✔✔A stereographic projection onto a plane so centered at any given point that a

straight line radiating from the center to any other point represents the shortest distance. Can be

measured to scale.


Choropleth Map - ✔✔A thematic map that uses tones or colors to represent spatial data as average values

per unit area


Fuller Projection - ✔✔Maintains the accurate size and shape of landmasses but completely rearranges

direction


Mercator Projection - ✔✔A type of cylindrical projection. A modified cylindrical projection that is helpful

to navigators because it allows them to maintain a constant compass direction between two points.




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Reference Map - ✔✔A map type that shows reference information for a particular place, making it useful

for finding landmarks and for navigating


Thematic Map - ✔✔A map that displays one or more themes, such as population, or income level-within

a specific area.


Spatial Map - ✔✔Maps that show relationships between things in space (and no, that's not outer space...)


Topological Map - ✔✔Simplified so that only vital information; lack scale, and distance and direction are

subject to change and variation, but the relationship between points is maintained


Cartograms - ✔✔Type of thematic map in which some thematic mapping variable - such as travel time or

Gross National Product - is substituted for land area or distance


Dot Maps - ✔✔Thematic maps that use points to show the precise locations of specific observations or

occurrences, such as crimes, car accidents, or births


Isolines - ✔✔Lines on a map that connect data points of equal value


Cognitive Maps - ✔✔Mental representations of how a physical space is organized


Conical Projection - ✔✔These projections superimposes a cone over the sphere of the earth, with two

reference parallels secant to the globe and intersecting it. Distortion increases further from the chosen

parallels.


Bonne Projection - ✔✔A conical projection, in which areas are accurately represented but the meridians

are not on a true scale.


7 Continents - ✔✔Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Asia is

the largest while Australia is the smallest.


5 Major Oceans - ✔✔Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic.




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Pacific Ocean - ✔✔Covers 46% of the total water surface of the Earth, and covers more than a third of the

total surface area. Largest of all the Oceans.


Mariana Trench - ✔✔Deepest point on the earth; is in the North Pacific Ocean.


Atlantic Ocean - ✔✔Bordered by Americas in the wet and Africa and Europe in the east. Consists of the

Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The saltiest ocean. The water in the

North circulates clockwise while in the South in circulates anti-clockwise. Second youngest of oceans, less

than 30 million years old.


Sperm Whale - ✔✔Largest living toothed animal found in the Atlantic Ocean.


Coriolis Effect - ✔✔An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force acting

perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. On the earth, the effect tends to

deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere

and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.


Indian Ocean - ✔✔Third largest ocean, bordering the eastern coast of Africa, the shores of the Middle

East and India in the north. 20% of all the water on the Earth's surface is in this ocean. 40% of the world's

offshore oil production occurs here. This ocean is warm enough to keep phytoplanktons low resulting in

limited life forms.


Mumbai Port - ✔✔The chief trading port in India on the coast of the Indian Ocean and is known to be the

Gateway of India.


Singapore - ✔✔The busiest port in the world located on the Indian Ocean.


Arctic Ocean - ✔✔Smallest and shallowest of all the oceans. Includes the Hudson Bay, the North Sea and

Barents Sea. Mostly covered with ice. Located in the Northern Hemisphere; has the lowest salinity among

all the oceans because of the lower amount of evaporation, flow of heavy freshwater from rivers and

streams, and has limited connection to other oceans.



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North Polar Basin - ✔✔Divided in to the two oceanic basins, the Amerasian Basin and the Eurasian Basin

by the Lomonosov Ridge.


Lomonosov Ridge - ✔✔Underwater ridge in the Arctic Ocean.


Like Deep - ✔✔Deepest part of the Arctic Ocean found in the Eurasian Basin.


Antarctic Ocean - ✔✔Fourth largest ocean. Referred sometimes as the Southern Ocean and located near

the South Pole. Joins the waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans and has a great influence on the

earth's weather patterns. Youngest of all oceans and marine life rich.


Mount Everest - ✔✔The highest point on Asia located in China and Nepal


Dead Sea - ✔✔The lowest point on Asia located in Israel, Jordan and Palestine


Aconcagua - ✔✔The highest point in South America located in Argentina


Laguna del Carbon - ✔✔The lowest point in South America located in Argentina


Denali - ✔✔The highest point in North America located in the United States


Death Valley - ✔✔The lowest point in North America located in the United States


Mount Kilimanjaro - ✔✔The highest point in Africa located in Tanzania


Lake Assal - ✔✔The lowest point in Africa located in Djibouti


Mount Elbrus - ✔✔The highest point in Europe located in Russia


Caspian Sea - ✔✔The lowest point in Europe located in Russia


Vinson Massif - ✔✔The highest point in Antarctica


Deep Lake - ✔✔Also known as Vestfold Hills, the lowest point in Antarctica


Puncak Jaya - ✔✔The highest point in Australia located in Indonesia (Papua)


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