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True or False
Based on the information in the chapter, determine whether each of these statements is true or false.

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1
1 A small circle gives the shortest distance between two points on Earth.
   
 
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Question 2
2 A person travelling westbound across the International Date Line must subtract one day from the calendar in order to keep an accurate record of the date.
   
 
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Question 3
3 A small scale map has less detail than a large scale map.
   
 
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Question 4
4 A system is a set of living and non-living components that have lost the ability to influence each other.
   
 
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Question 5
5 According to your text, the discipline of geography is governed by the method of spatial analysis.
   
 
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Question 6
6 Understanding the size and shape of Earth is a primary goal of geodesy.
   
 
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Question 7
7 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) adjusts for daylight savings every year in much the same way as most of North America.
   
 
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Question 8
8 A great circle has a center that coincides with Earth's center.
   
 
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Question 9
9 A meridian is a line that connects all points along the same latitude.
   
 
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Question 10
10 If a world maps shows Greenland and South America to be about the same size (area), it is quite possibly a Mercator projection.
   
 
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