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| rotation | spin around an object
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| revolution | to spin while turning
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| tropic of cancer | line of latitude 23 degrees 1/2 north of equator
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| tropic of capricorn | 23 degress 1/2 south of equator
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| arctic circle | a line of latitude 23 degrees 1/2 of south of north pole
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| anaractic circle | a line of latitude 23 degrees 1/2 from south pole
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| Winter solstice | the shortest light but longest night December 21st
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| Summer solstice | the longest daylight but shortest night June 23
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| vernal equinox | 12 hours of daylight and night Spring
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| autumnal equinox | 12 hours of daylight and night fall
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| relative location | using landmarks to find a place
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| globe/sphere | a three deminsional circle
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| contenient | large land mass that rises above the ocean
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| island | a trasct of land
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| pennisula | an area of land, almost completely surrounded by water, except for an isthmus connecting to the mainland
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| desert | a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only begetation or no vegetation at all
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| mountain | a natural elevation of the arth's surface rising more or less abrubtly to a summit
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| archipleago | a large group or chain of islands
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| platueau | a land having a relatively level surface raised above adjoining land on at least one side
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| mesa | a land formation less extensive than a plateau
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| physical map | a map that hsows mountains, oceans, natural features
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| political map | man made features
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| themeatrical | picks a theme then issustrates it on a map
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| cartographer | someone who makes maps
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| coastal plains | an area of level land usually at low eleveation and with grass along the coast
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| basin | area of land drained and braches; an area of land surrounded by land of higher eleveation
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| canyon | a deep and narrow valley with steep walls
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| harbor | a sheltered place along the shoreline where ships can anchor safely
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| glacier | a large thick body of slowly moving ice
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| valley | an area of low land, usually between mountains or hills
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| volcano | mountain of hill created as liquid rock and ash except from insdie the earth
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