Questions in Geography: Adapted to Any Systematic Course of Study or Standard Text-Book on the Subject (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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I. What is Geography? How is it divided? Define mathematical, physical and political geography. 2. What is the shape of the earth? Give three proofs of the earth's rotundity. 3. Define a globe or sphere. A hemisphere. The diameter of a sphere. 4. How is direction on the earth's surface indicated? Name the cardinal points. The semi-cardinal points. What point on the earth's surface is north of every other place? \vhat two motions has the earth? Define each. How long a time is required for a single rotation of the earth. For a revolution? 10. Which proof of the earth's rotundity is most conclusive? II. Name is applied to a sphere flattened on two Opposite sides? 12. What, then, in exact language is the shape of the earth? I 3. Which is greater, the earth's axial or equatorial diameter? 14. Define the earth's orbit. Define the plane of the earth's orbit. 15. A meridian circle. A great circle. Name the great circles. I\6. \vhich one extends east and west? Define a small circle. Name the principal four small circles. 17. How many degrees is the earth's axis inclined towards the plane of its orbit? 18. The inclination of the earth's axis decides the location of what parallels. 19. W'hich circles determine the northern and southern limit, within which at some time the sun's rays may be vertical?

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