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C3Looking at Regions
Term | Definition |
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transportation | the way people and goods are moved from place to place |
industry | all the businesses that make up one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
technology | the way people use new ideas to make tools and machines |
absolute location | the exact position of a place on the Earth's surface |
urban | a city region |
suburb | a town or small city near a larger city |
specialize | to work at only one kind of job |
agriculture | farming |
trade | buying and selling of goods |
interdependence | regions of the U.S. depending on each other for resources and products |
communication | the way people send and receive information |
rural | of or like a country region |
parallels | lines of latitude which run east to west and are always the same distance apart |
meridians | lines of longitude which run north to south |
relative location | position in relation to other places on Earth |