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Geography
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Location | Tells you where it is |
Movement | People and ideas get around |
human environment interaction | what the environment does to people and what people do to it |
regions | what locations have in common climate religion language |
Latitude | measures south and north and run from east and west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
Longitude | measures east and west |
Hemisphere | Half of a sphere [Earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east and west hemisphere] |
Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into east and west hemispheres |
Equator | 0 degrees Latitude and divides the earth into north and south hemispheres |
Compass | shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EASTshows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST |
Continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continents |
Country | territory of a nation |
State | Florida is a state |
place | what is it like when you get there |