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geography
vocab
Term | Definition |
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location | Tells you where it is |
Place | What is it like when you get there |
Movement | People and ideas get around |
Regions | What do locations have in common?-- Climate, religion, language, education |
Hemisphere | half of sphere Earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east and west hemisphere |
latitude | measures south and north and run east to west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
Longitude | measures east and west and the lines run from north to south |
prime meridian | 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into east and west hemispheres |
Equator | 0 degrees Latitude and divides the earth into north and south hemispheres |
Compass | shows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST |
Continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continents |
Country | territory of a nation |
State | Florida is a state |
human environment interaction | what do the people do to the environment?what does the environment do for the people? |