Vocab chapter 1
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| geography | is the study of people places and thing related to eachother
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| GIS | a geographic info system, which uses computer technalogy to collect and analyze data about earth
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| absolute location | position on earth in which a place can be found
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| hemisphere | half of the earth; the equator divides the earth in halfs
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| relative locatioon | a position of a place in relation to another place
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| character of a place | the physical and human chararistcs that help distinguish aa place from other places.
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| perception | a veiwpoint from which ones experiences are veiwed from cultural experiences
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| formal region | a group of places that have similiar attributes for example political region
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| functional regional | a group of places connected by movement for example a region drained by the amazon and its tributaries
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| perceptual region | a group of places defined by its feelings and attributes
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| core | center of the earth
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| crust | what we live on the thinnest part
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| lithosphere | landforms and surface features
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| atmosphere | the layer of gasses and substances above the earth
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| hydrosphere | the water contained in the earth and on the earth
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| biosphere | the earth of plants animals an living things
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| relief | differences in elevation in an area
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| continent | is the big landforms in the cean... a total of seven
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| weathering | is the breakdpwn of rock at the earths service into smaller and smaller pieces
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| mechanical weathering | occurs when rock is actually broken or weakened physically
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| chemical weathering | alters a rocks chemical makeup by changing its minerals by combining them with new combinations
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| axid rain | chemicals polluted in the air combine with water vapor and rain down to earth
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| erosion | movement of weathered materials such as gravel soil and sand
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| sediment | small partices of soil sand andgravel
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| loess | fine grained mineral rich loam dust or silt deposited by the wind
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| glacier | a huge slow moving mass of snow and ice
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| moraine | a ridgelike mass of of rock gravel sand and claye carried and deposited by a glacier
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