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Geography
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Location | Tells you where it is |
| Movement | People and ideas get around |
| human environment interaction | what the environment does to people and what people do to it |
| regions | what locations have in common climate religion language |
| Latitude | measures south and north and run from east and west-- like the rungs of a ladder |
| Longitude | measures east and west |
| Hemisphere | Half of a sphere [Earth is separated into north and south hemisphere and east and west hemisphere] |
| 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 EASTshows ‘cardinal direction’ NORTH SOUTH EAST |
| Continent | on earth we have 7 large land masses called continents |
| Country | territory of a nation |
| State | Florida is a state |
| place | what is it like when you get there |