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Geography
Geography Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Location | Tells you where it is |
Place | What it is like when you get there |
Movement | People and ideas get around |
Human environment interaction | What do the people do to the environment? What does the environment do for the people? |
Regions | What do locations have in common?-- Climate, religion, language, education |
Latitude | Measures south and north and run from east and west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
Longitude | Measures east and west and the lines run from north to south |
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 EAST WEST |
Continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continents |
County | territory of a nation |
State | Florida is a state |
Hemisphere | Half of sphere earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east to west hemisphere. |
Historian | an expert in or student of history |
Anthropologist | person who studies the origin and development of humans |
Fossil | an impression in rock left by a plant/animal from an earlier time |
Technology | the ways knowledge, tools, inventions are applied to meet needs |
Archaeologist | person who studies human history through remains |
Artifact | something made by a human |