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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| location | tell you where it is |
| place | what is it like when you are there |
| movement | people and ideas get around |
| human environment interaction | what do the people do to the environment ? what does the environment do for the people? |
| region | what do the people do to the envornment |
| hemisphere | half of a sphere |
| latitude | measure south and north and run from east to west like the rungs of a ladder |
| longitude | measure east to west and the lines run north to south |
| prime meridian | 0 degrees longitude and divides the earth into east and west hemisphere |
| equator | 0 latitude and divides the earth into north and south hemisphere |
| compass | shows cardinal direction north south east |
| continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continent |