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Geography Chap 1-4

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Absolute Location   The exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found  
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Relative Location   Describes a place in comparison to other places around it  
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Place   Physical features and cultural characteristics of a location  
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Region   An area of the earths surface with similar characteristics  
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Movement   The way people goods and ideas move from place to place  
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Interaction man/enviroment   How humans interact with their enviroment  
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Cartographer   Mapmaker  
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Map Projection   A way of drawing the earths surface that reduces distortion caused by presenting a round earth on a flat paper  
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Landsat   A series of satellites that orbit more than 100 miles above earth  
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Topographic Map   A representation of natural and man made features of the earth  
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Biosphere   The part of the earth where the plants and animals live  
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Cataract   A step like series of waterfalls  
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Drainage Basin   An area drained by a major river and its tributes  
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Epicenter   The point directly above the focus on the earths surface  
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Fault   Fracture in the earths crust  
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Humus   Organic material  
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Hydrologic Cycle   The continous circulation of water between the atmosphere in the oceans and the earth  
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Lava   Magma that has reached the earths surface  
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Loess   Windblown silt and clay sediment that produce very fertile soil  
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Moraine   A ridge or hill of rock carried and finally deposited by a glacier  
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Richter Scale   A way to measure information collected by seismographs to determine the relative strength of an earthquake  
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Ring of Fire   The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim  
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Sediment   small pieces of rock produced by weathering process  
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Seismograph   A device that measures the size of the waves created by an earthquake  
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Tectonic Plates   An enormous moving shelf that forms the earths crust  
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Topography   The combined characteristics of landforms and their distributions in a region  
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Rain Shadow   The land on the leeward side of hills or mountains that gets little rain from the descending dry air  
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Hurricane   A storm that forms over warm tropical ocean waters  
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