Mr. Johnston's 7th grade vocab
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| Geography | The study of where people, places, and things are located and how they relate to each other.
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| Absolute Location | position on the earth
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| Hemisphere | Halves
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| Relative Location | relation compared to other places
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| Formal Region | area in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area
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| Functional Region | consist of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it
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| Perceptual Region | defined by people’s feelings and attitudes and areas
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| Core | Center
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| Mantel | thick layer of rock around the core
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| Crust | rocky surface area
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| Lithosphere | surface features of the earth including soil, rock, and landforms
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| Atmosphere | layer of gas, water vapor, and other substances above the earth
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| Hydrosphere | the water contained in the oceans, lakes, rivers, and under ground
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| Biosphere | the world of plants, animals, and other living things in the earth’s land and water
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| Continent | any of the Earth’s seven large landmasses of the earth’s surface
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| Plate Tectonics | theory that the earth’s outer shell is not one solid sheet of rock
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| Ring of Fire | a circle of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean
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| Weathering | the breakdown of rock at or near the earth’s surface into smaller pieces
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| Mechanical/Physical Weathering | the breaking up or physical weakening of rock by forces such as ice and roots
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| Chemical Weathering | the altering of a rock’s chemical makeup by changing the minerals that form the rock or combining them with mew chemical elements
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| Acid Rain | when chemicals in the polluted air combine with water vapor, falling to the earth
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| Erosion | the movement of weathered material, such as gravel, soil, and sand
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| Glaciers | huge, slow-moving sheets of ice
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| GIS | (Geographic information system) the uses of computer technology to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display data about the earth’s surface in order to solve problems.
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| 5 Themes of Geography | Place, Region, Human-Environmental Interaction, Location, and Movement
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