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Geography
vocabulary
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 |
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 |
Latitude - | measures from north to south and the lines run east to west |
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 |
Hemisphere- | Half of a sphere |