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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geograpy | the study of land and the people on it. |
| trend | a general movemoent oward change over the course of time. |
| climate | the expected weather conditions at a place, uaually over a period of time. |
| drought | a long period of tome of dryness. |
| census | a periodic count of the population. |
| precipitation | mouisture that falls from the sky. |
| resevoir | an artificial lake where water is collected for use. |
| landform | a feature of the earth's surface. |
| relative location | the position of a place relative to another place. |
| absolute location | the exact position of a place on earth. |
| physical enviroment | the external surrondings and conditions in which something exists. |
| migrate | to move from one place to another. |
| physical geography | the shapes and sizes of landforms and where they are located. |
| human geography | where humans are located and sizes of where they are. |
| place | a location on the earths surface. |
| human-enviroment relationship | the way humans adapt to their enviroment. |
| movement | a way something changes. |
| latitude | the location north or south of the equator. |
| longitude | the location east or west of the equator. |
| parallel | the line representing the cirle on a map or graph. |
| meridian | a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earths surface. |
| degree | any series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action, a point in any scale. |
| minute | an exact point in time; instant; moment. |
| hemisphere | one half of the earth, divided by the equator into northern and southern halves or by 0degrees and 180 degrees meridians into eastern and western halves. |
| equator | the imaginary line at 0* latitude that divides the northern and southern hemisphere and a southern and northern half. |
| prime meridian | the imaginary line at 0* longitude. |
| projection | the transfer of an image of a curved surface onto a flat surface. |
| physical map | a general purpose map that shows the natural features of an area. |