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Geography
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Location | Tells you where it is |
Longitude | Measures east (+) to west (-), goes north to south |
Measures north (+) to south (-), goes east to west | |
Prime Meridian | 0 degrees longitude |
Equator | 0 degrees latitude |
Place | What it is like when you get there |
Movement | How people and ideas get around |
Human environment interaction | What do the people do to the environment? What does the environment do for the people? |
Regions | What do locations have in common?-- Climate, religion, language, education |
Hemisphere | Half of a sphere |
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 |