Exploring Geography
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| geography | ancient greek word meaning earth description
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| location | a specific place on the earth
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| absolute location | the exact spot at which the place is found on the globe
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| Equator | the line circling the earth midway between the north and south poles
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| hemisphere | half of the earth
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| prime meridian | the north south line that runs through Greenwich, England
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| grid system | lines of latitude and longtitude crossing eachother and forming a pattern
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| relative location | locating a place in relation to other places
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| place | is a particular space with physical and human meaning
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| region | places are grouped into anarea united by specific factors
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| formal region | defined by a common characteristic
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| functional region | a central place and the surrounding area linked to it
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| perceptual region | a region defined by popular feelings and images rather than objective data
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| ecosystem | a community of plants and animals that depend upon one another, and their surroundings, for survival
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| Human-envirnment interaction | the study of interrelationship between people and their physical environment
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| physical geography | the study of the earth's physical features
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| human geography | the study of human activity and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
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| meteorology | the study of weather and weather forcasting
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| historical geography | the study of places and human activities over time and the various geographic factors that have shapedt them
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| cartography | the studying and making of maps
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| GIS | Geographic information systemsare computer tools that process and organize data and satellite images with other pieces of information
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