Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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| 1.geography | the study of where people places and thinggs are located
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| 2.GIS | comupter technology to collect,manipulate, analyze,and display data about the earths surface.
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| 3.absolute location | it positions the globe
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| 4.hemisphere | divides the world in half
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| 5.relative location | or its relation ompared to other places.
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| 6.character of place | consists of the places physical characteristics and human characteristics.
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| 7.perception | a viewpoin that is influenced by ones own culture and expirences
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| 8.formal regions | consist of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it.
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| 9.perceptual regions | defined by peoples feelings and attitudes about areas.
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| 10.functional region | consits of a central place and the surrounding places affected by it.
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| 11.core | center of the earth
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| 12.mantle | a thick later of rock.
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| 13.crust | rocky surface layer of the earth
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| 14.lithosphere | made up of soil, rocks, and other surfacce features
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| 15.atomosphere | the layer off air, water, and other substances above in the surface
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| 16.hydroshpere | consists of water in oceans, lakes, and rivers, and even under ground.
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| 17.biosphere | the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet.
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| 18.continents | any of the seven large landmasses of the eaths surface; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Austrailia, Europe, North America, and South America.
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| 19.relief | the differences in elevation, or height, of the landforms in any particular area.
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| 20.plate tectonics | the earths outer shell is not the earths crust and mantle.
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| 21.coninental drifft theory | The theory that the earths outer shell is composed of a number of large, unanchored plates, or slabs of rock, whose constant movement expalings earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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| 22.Ring of fire | a cirlce of volcanoes surrounding the pacific ocean.
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| 23.Weathering | the breakdown of rock at or near the earth's surface into smaller and smaller pieces.
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| 24.Mechanical Weathering | occurs when rock is actuall broken or weakend phyiscally.
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| 25.Chemical Weathering | alters a rocks chemical makeup by changing the minerals that form the rock or combining them witth new chemical elements.
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| 26.Acid Rain | Chemicals in the polluted air combine with water vapor and fall back to earth as acid rain.
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| 27.Erosion | the movement of weathered materials such as gravel, soil, and sand.
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| 28.Sediment | small particles of soil, sand, and gravel.
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| 29. loess | windblown deposits of mineral rich dust and silt.
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| 30.Glaciers | huge, slow-moving sheets of ice.
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| 31.Moraines | when glaciers melted and receded in some places, they left behind ridgelike piles of rocks and debris.
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