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geography-Talia
Geography Vocabulary
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute Location | Specific, exact point of reference address |
| Relative | Accurate but very general |
| Perspective | personal view of the world |
| Proxmity | nearness in space, time or relationship |
| Distance | An amount of space between two things or people |
| Direction | A course along which someone or something moves |
| Bearing | A person's way of standing or moving |
| Coordinates | each of a group of numbers used to indicate the postion of a point, line or plane |
| Vector | Direct (an aircraft in flight) to a desired point |
| Equator | 0 degrees latitude |
| Parallel | lines of latitude |
| Prime Meridian | Imaginary lines that divides the earth into eastern and western halves. 0 degrees line longitude |
| Meridian | lines of longitude |
| Hemisphere | Any half of the earth |
| Tropic Of Cancer | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator |
| Tropic Of Capricorn | A line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator |
| Cardinal Directions | North, South, East, West |
| Intermediate points | Northeast, Southeast, East-west |
| Location | A particular place or position |
| Place | A particular position or place |
| Movement | an act of changing physical location or position or of having this change |
| Human Environmental Interaction | Looks at the relationships between people and environment |
| Region | Large area that is different from the areas around it. A region can be defined by a single feature or by several features, either natural or cultural |
| Latitude | imaginary lines joining points or earth's surface that are all of equal distance north or south of the equator |
| Longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian, as measured in degrees of a circle |
| International dateline | an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following the 180th meridian (180 degrees longitude) |
| Tropic Zone | the part of the earths surface between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn |
| Environment | Everything that surrounds, both natural and/or man-made |
| Ecology | A unique environment with unique characteristics |
| Adaptation | living things learn to live in their unique environment/ ecosystems |
| Climate | Average weather in a region over a long period of time |
| Compass rose | a circle showing the principal of directions printed on a map or chart |
| Legend/key | Tells you about specific icons or colors on a game or map |
| Scale | the ratio between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on earth |
| equinox | the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earths equator making night and day equal all around the world |
| Solstice | either of the two times of the year the sun is at its greatest from the equator |
| Poles | North and south poles |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GIS | Georgraphic Information System is a system of hardware and software used for storage and mapping |
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