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Geography Test
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Question | Answer |
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Geography | the study of earth and its people |
absolute location | exact spot where a place is found |
relative location | where a place is in relation to the features around it |
environment | natural surroundings of people |
decade | a period of 10 years |
century | a period of 100 years |
millennium | a period of 1,000 years |
GPS | a group of satellites that uses radio signals to determine the location of places on Earth |
GIS | a group of big computers used to analyze and store geographic info and display it on a screen |
solar system | planets along with their moons, asteroids, and other bodies, and the sun |
orbit | specific path each planet follows around the sun |
revolution | one complete circuit around the sun |
rotates | to spin on an axis |
leap year | a year with 366 days, it only happens every 4 years when all the 1/4 add up to 1 whole day ( to make the calender match the Earths orbit around the sun) |
axis | an imaginary line through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole |
atmosphere | a layer of oxygen and other gases that surround the Earth |
summer solstice | day that has the most daylight hours and least nighttime hours |
winter solstice | the fewest hours of daylight and most amount of nighttime hours ( also know more commonly as Christmas! ) |
equinox | the days of Spring and Fall which the sun's rays on on the equator giving us the same amount of day and night in that 24 hours |
Tropics | area that is generally warm because is receives the warmest temperature because it gets the suns rays for most of the year |